As smart devices become more accessible to the public and with the rise of fitness and wellness apps available, patients are owning and tracking their own health data in ways that were not accessible to doctors before. Therefore, the need to create secure ways to share data with healthcare providers and connect to their health networks and systems is becoming increasingly important.

Patients are collecting data on their eating habits, fitness regimes, and if they have smart medical devices (such as Continuous Glucose Monitoring devices), this data can be shared with their healthcare providers. Enabling patients to share this information with their doctors could facilitate fewer visits, customized treatment plans, and reduce the need for testing in some cases, while giving doctors a better picture to diagnose and customize treatment based on lifestyle.

Develop a connector or solution that allows patients to seamlessly share their health information with healthcare providers securely.

Also check out Google Resources for additional API's that may assist in this challenge. 

Approximately 15% of the global population lives with a disability. Accessibility issues are any barriers that make it difficult or impossible for disabled users to access, navigate, or engage with digital content.

Web accessibility issues are only the tip of the spear when it comes to addressing digital accessibility requirements that can be extended and applied to all forms of digital content, including document optimization and images. The international standards set out by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and the American Disabilities Act (ADA) have identified common web accessibility issues and have created a list of standards that are classified under 4 key principles, the first of which apply to this challenge:

1. Perceivable

 a. Make it Simpler for users to see and hear content

 b. Present text alternatives for non-text content

 c. Five captions & other alternatives for multimedia

 d. Create content that can be presented without losing meaning using assistive technologies

2. Operable

3. Understandable

4. Robust

Develop a solution that optimizes accessibility requirements that an organization can utilize to make their solutions digitally accessible. 

Additional resources:

• https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/
• https://www.ada.gov/

Approximately 15% of the global population lives with a disability. Paper records or documents pose the same problem – the lack of digital optimization. When documents or records are added to a system of record, it lacks of usable data that can be utilized for further analysis.

Take blood tests for example, when uploaded it lacks of metadata. Imagine if you could turn the results of a blood test into usable metadata, you could transform that data and create tagging structures, new libraries for analysis and more.

Build a solution that can capture, uber ingest and transform documents. If you’re ambitious, feel free to combine this challenge with the next 2 challenges to create a solution.

Healthcare data lakes pose challenges, one of those being how to effectively manage and analyze unstructured data. This requires advanced techniques for text mining, natural language processing and image recognition to drive meaningful insights from sources such as clinical notes, research articles, medical images and tests.

Data analytics and healthcare services can be combined to address every aspect of patient care and management and unlock new ways of improving healthcare services.

Build a solution to analyze and display data for doctors.

Patient confidentiality is the utmost important factor when designing healthcare solutions. Protected Health Information (PHI) is a specific type of sensitive Personally Identifiable Information (PII) that is collected by a healthcare provider or other covered entity for the provision of healthcare services. Some countries have created standards on how to implement specific technical operational safeguards to protect PHI such as:

• United States HIPAA

• Canada PIPEDA

• India DISHA

Build a solution that is PHI and PII compliant.