4. linguistics
who understands medical terms?
Esophagogastroduodenoscopy
Access is often thought of physical or phone access
but the first barrier can be lack of understanding and fear to show it
a lot of online resources talk in words that not all understand
5. turnover
of health professionals
high turnover of health professionals in remote areas
out of date paper directories of referral services
takes a while to know who to refer patients to
onboarding takes time
6. data access
its remote man
2G 3G 4G
125 kpbs 800 kpbs 1.5 mps
Not everyone lives in a town, or near a cell tower
weather can dramatic impede phone reception
Not everyone has a modern smart phone
7. lack of info
what can this health centre do?
A lot of online resources are not upto date or complete
8. bottleneck
who updates the info
Often the online resources are “managed by one part person as a small part of their job
or they have to use a contractor has it is all hard coded
10. patient focused
find by their needs
symptoms ability capacity open
we want to be able to search by things that make sense to use non medics
symptoms, abilities (of the clinic or person), open spots for a family GP, opening times
11. unmet demand
record incomplete search
if 500 hundred people search and got no result, maybe there is a service missing e.g medical breakout, missing service,
12. simple words
find by words people understand
This is a game that one medical council built to help patients understand doctors
We want to use common words to help people search
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/medicalwords.html
13. crowd source
get up to date information
Everyone would be able to add, edit, it did not hurt wilkiapedia
14. data connection
from text to maps
3 Options:!
!
Whitehorse Health Centre
- 1km, 9010 Quartz Rd - (867) 667-8864
!
Eastern Passage Health Centre
- 3.1km, 208 Alexander St - (867) 633-6157
- Acupuncture
!
Mount MacIntyre Native Health Centre
- 4.7km
When data connection is slow we will send text and when good the full map
15. Whitehorse Health Centre!
9010 Quartz Rd - (867) 667-8864
Health
!
Open: 8am to 6pm except sunday closed
Abilities: appointments, walkins, stitches,
look inside body
Symptoms: Cuts, Sad, Pregnancy
Capacity: 3 Doctors (2 Family spots
open), 2 Nurses
An example of what it could look like.
An Health centre with opening times, its abilities, symptoms it serves and open capacity
16. API
serve the data in many formats
We will serve html, XML, JSON so that any other applications can use the data.
