Mobile Health Rankings

Mobile Health Rankings combines the GPS on mobile devices and the home inventory database on Zillow.com with county health rankings. While, Zillow’s mobile application allows users to identify real estate properties on the go, Acsys has added the additional information layer of county health rankings.

Each listing is enhanced by revealing six aspects of county health including: mortality, morbidity, clinical care, social and economic factors, physical environment and health behaviors.

Asthmapolis

Spiroscout Inhaler Tracker

At the center of Asthmapolis is the Spiroscout, a device that uses GPS to determine the time and location when an inhaler is used, and then stores or sends that information to a remote server.

It’s small and lightweight, easy to mount securely on the end of most inhalers, and simple to transfer to a new canister. Lights on the device let you know when it has detected use, and also show remaining battery level.

The Spiroscout lasts 2+ days between charges depending on how often its used, and recharges quickly anywhere with a wall charger or USB power source. You connect it to USB port on PC to download information from device and transfer to the Asthmapolis website.

Asthmapolis mobile diary and website

With the Asthmapolis mobile diary, you can map and track asthma symptoms, triggers, and your use of rescue and controller medications, and other important events from any phone with a web browser. You can choose to receive text message reminders when you forget to use controller medication, and review streamlined versions of your asthma map and charts on the phone.

The Asthmapolis website uses maps, charts and tables to summarize and reveal your patterns of use and trends over time, and to help you identify locations that cause asthma to worsen. You can also add and edit information about your asthma, and explore asthma in your community and around you.

Bing Health

Bing, the popular search engine, has launched Bing Health to allow users to quickly find relevant information and make better decisions. As a healthcare topic is searched, Bing finds other helpful and related topics or questions that may aide in research including medical conditions, facilities, symptoms and medications.

Searching a facility will result in a display of patient rating information collected for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that compares this hospital to the state average.

AnalyzeThe.US

Palantir Health powers AnalyzeThe.US, a powerful platform that allows anyone to find patterns in healthcare data recently released to the public domain. These patterns allow for the exploration of temporal, geospatial, relational or correlations of patients, staff, treatments or events.

Practice Fusion Medical Research Data

Practice Fusion has teamed up with Microsoft Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket to provide a sample of 5,000 de-identified medical records for research purposes at no cost. These records include details for researching trends in:

  • Patient vitals – including blood pressure, respiratory rate, BMI, temperature and more
  • Diagnoses – with ICD-9 codes, start and stop date
  • Medications – with NDC codes, medication names, strengths, schedule, start and stop date
  • Prescriptions – representing medication prescribing events
  • Immunizations – including vaccine name and date administered
  • Allergies – with type, date, reaction, related medication NDC code and severity

Practice Fusion’s platform provides increasingly complete and significant insight into national health. To learn more please visit www.practicefusion.com/research

Kids Data.org

Kidsdata.org, a program of the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health, is your gateway to comprehensive data about the health and well being of children in communities across California. A free, public service, kidsdata.org offers data for every city, county, and school district in California — nearly 1,600 regions — making it easy to monitor trends and pinpoint disparities for communities statewide.

Microsoft HealthVault

Microsoft HealthVault puts the user in control of their healthcare information, all in one place. Users create personal accounts and enter health information to digitize their healthcare records. This information is then accessible as the user needs it, and can be generated into reports and trends or used to find valuable and relevant teaching tools.

MedWatcher

Stay up to date with the latest news and government safety alerts for the prescription medicines you take. Submit any side effects you experience to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to make drugs safer for everyone.

MedWatcher is a mobile tool for both healthcare professionals and the general public. Anyone can submit an adverse event report to FDA using the easy-to-use form on MedWatcher, or post to our online community to talk to others taking the same meds. In the MyDrugs section, you can make a quick list of all the prescription medicines your family or patients take and track the latest developments.

Clinicians will find MedWatcher to be a vast improvement over the paper and fax FDA MedWatch form. No more cramped text boxes or tiny font! Do it at your convenience and fulfill your professional obligations in a convenient way. Get your patients involved in their health.