The national Data Resource Center for Child & Adolescent Health (www.childhealthdata.org), is a project of the Child & Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative (CAHMI) and is supported by a cooperative agreement with the HRSA Maternal & Child Health Bureau. The DRC provides free, hands-on access and technical assistance for national and state-based data on over 100 child, family, and community health indicators from the National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH) and the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (NS-CSHCN).
Monthly Archives: May 2011
Stats of the Union
GE presents their very first data visualization iPad application. Now, it’s possible to examine over 70 health indicators at the community level across the United States with the pinch of a finger. Visit the itunes store to download this app for free and begin exploring for yourself how different locales fare against one another.
MedlinePlus Connect
MedlinePlus Connect is an award-winning, free service of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that easily links patient portals and electronic health record (EHR) systems to MedlinePlus.gov, an authoritative, up-to-date health information resource for patients, families and health care providers. MedlinePlus Connect provides context-relevant responses for problems and diagnoses, medications and lab tests. MedlinePlus Connect supports the HL7 Context-Aware Knowledge Retrieval (Infobutton) standard and accepts requests containing standardized code sets already used by EHRs. It is available as a Web application and as a Web service.
Lumeris / Maestro
Lumeris is the nation’s first full-service enabler of next-generation accountable health care delivery systems. Maestro, from Lumeris, is powerful software that allows health plans, hospitals, medical groups and individual physicians to find and confidently act on opportunities to improve the quality and lower the cost of health care. In addition to lending credible context to clinical and financial data, this web-based software supports greater collaboration between the payers and providers of health care.
SmartMenu
The SmartMenu Terminal is a self-service ordering solution for quick service restaurants. It allows your customers to quickly and conveniently order and pay using an iPad. For diners with specific food allergies, dietary preferences or health needs, the SmartMenu Terminal also suggests items on your menu that are appropriate. SmartMenu ordering terminals use theories from behavioral economics to promote healthy food choices at partnering restaurants.
FoodSwapper
Enter a food into FoodSwapper and the program will suggest a similar, healthier option.
EpiSurveyor
EpiSurveyor is the most widely scaled mobile health application in the world, and is used by more than 4000 users in more than 170 countries. It allows a non-technical user to easily and quickly create and deploy a mobile-phone-based data collection system. More than 99% of users access the free basic version, which is subsidized by the upper level pro and enterprise versions. Data can be collected using Java-enabled phones, Android phones, Blackberries, and soon iPhones. Now also used for conservation, economics, agriculture and many other fields in addition to health.
Global Health Data Exchange
The Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx) is a new data catalog for demographic, public health and global health data. It was developed by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington to address a key issue for global and public health analysis, which is a lack of knowledge about data and access to data. The GHDx is the first – and currently the only – data catalog that focuses on health-related data on a global scale. They are making efforts to build the broadest and most in-depth data catalog, and aim to be the go-to source for information about data for researchers, analysts, policy makers and others in the global health space. The GHDx improves data discoverability by providing a user-friendly, validated and searchable data catalog for global health, demographic, and other health-related datasets, including censuses, surveys, health records, vital statistics, and administrative data. The GHDx also aims at improving access to data by serving as a platform for data owners to share their data with the public. All of IHME’s search results are available for download, and IHME invites others to distribute their data through the GHDx.
My Dietary Supplements
The Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has developed a free mobile app for consumers called My Dietary Supplements (MyDS). MyDS gives you an easy way to keep track of the vitamins, minerals, herbs, and other products you take — right in the palm of your hand. It also gives you access to our science-based, reliable fact sheets on dietary supplements. Spanish language versions of our fact sheets are included too. In addition, general information about ODS — who we are and what we do is also provided.
Simply enter the names and amounts of your dietary supplements and you’ll have access to this important information anytime, anywhere — for example, when seeing your doctor or shopping. With MyDS, you also can email your personal list of dietary supplements to yourself or to your health care providers and print it out.
Press Ganey
The Press Ganey Improvement Portal focuses your organization on improvement by reducing the time your organization spends in “data mode” and increasing the amount of time spent in “improvement mode.” The Improvement Portal enables you and your organization to gain real-time insight into current performance, provides immediate access to best-in-class improvement resources and networking and aligns your organization around performance priorities.