The Healthcare Quality Compare application allows consumers to personalize their searches of the government’s data and then evaluate hospitals based on the quality measures important to them. Consumers can filter search results by ratings or directly compare several facilities.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Quick Health Data Online
The Quick Health Data Online system provides state and county level data for 11 categories, demographics, mortality, mental health, maternity health, reproductive health, violence, prevention, and disease. The information can be sorted by by gender, race and ethnicity. After the user selects variables and geographic information, a report is generated.
GE Healthymagination Data Visualization
Healthymagination is dedicated to improving health and wellness by combining available and innovative technology. Healthymagination Visualizations give users a new, easy to understand insight into important healthcare issues.
iTriage
iTriage is a web and mobile application that allows users to enter symptoms to search for possible causes. If the users wants to access a healthcare facility, iTriage can help them find the appropriate facility to treat their condition (hospitals, urgent care, pharmacies and physicians) and give them directions. iTriage will provide quality reports on facilities and physicians and teach the user about possible treatments they will receive.
Community Health Map – Health Landscape
SCVNGR
SCVNGR is a mobile game and platform that allows users to participate in challenges and report their progress. As users complete challenges, badges are unlocked as well as real world prizes. By participating in SCVNGR, users explore new places and are encouraged to add challenges of their own.