AppsForHealth 2012 Challenges
How might we use mobile technology to support growth monitoring and counseling
for children under the age of 5 to improve nutrition and reduce child mortality in
developing countries?
Learn more about this challenge.
Sponsored by World Vision
Electronic Dermatology Consultation
How can mobile technology be used to streamline dermatology consultations in the
primary care setting?
Learn more about this challenge.
Sponsored by Hamilton Family Health Team
Mobile Assistance Solution for Youth with Lupus
How could a mobile app increase connectedness with other young people with lupus; track symptoms; remind them to take their medications, include an up-to-date summary of their current status; allow communication of their health status to health care providers; and ide healthy role models in a way that is easy to access, empowering and fun and that won't require individual feedback to users?
Sponsored by Good 2 Go Transition Program, The Hospital for Sick Children
Interoperability Between Specialized Data and Generic EHR
How could nurses use technology in a long term care organization to plan, evaluate and document evidence-based care? How could technology enable safe transition of care at shift change? How could technology interoperate with the EHR to improve patient care and capture health outcome data?
Sponsored by Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario
Mobile Education App for Prostate Cancer
Design an application that will be used to educate men on prostate cancer and provide them with the relevant questions to ask their doctor, based on their profile and disease stage - screening, diagnosis, treatment, living with cancer or remission.
Sponsored by Prostate Cancer Canada
Technological Assistance for Children with Chronic Health Conditions
How can technology be used to improve accessibility and ease of use of the new WHO classification system (ICF-CY) to process, collect and display information about the ‘disability’ and ‘functional’ status of children with chronic health conditions?
Sponsored by CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research
Mobile Solution to Reduce Mortality Rates in Northern Haiti
How can we use mobile decision support and mobile technology to improve effective institutional delivery referrals to reduce maternal and infant mortality rates in rural communities in Northern Haiti?
Sponsored by International Child Care Canada
Leveraging Technology to Assist Seniors with Alternative Living and Long-Term Care
How could mobile technology be used to assist seniors and their families explore and discuss alternate living environments and long-term care options?
Sponsored by Hamilton Niagara Haldimand Brant CCAC
Design an application that combines
1) medical data about a given patient stored in their own patient-controlled personal health record with
2) live data from a symptom tracker relevant to a given chronic disease to trigger retrieval or receipt of research- based recommendations relevant to that specific patient, and present those recommendations both to the patient within their PHR and to the health care providers’ EMR that shares medical data with that patient’s PHR.
Sponsored by OSCAR McMaster
