Developing Next Generation Mobile Health Care Applications

Acsys Interactive develops the Mobile Health Rankings for My Community application for smartphones and mobile devices as part of the Health 2.0 Developer Challenge. The mobile application displays Health Rankings information for each county and the state in a mobile friendly format. The application has won the Health 2.0 Developers Challenge - The Health Factor – Using the County Health Rankings to Make Smart Decisions Challenge and was presented at the Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. The challenge was sponsored by Health 2.0 Developer Challenge and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute The native android application can be downloaded from the Android MarketPlace by searching for ‘My Community Health Rankings’  or by scanning this QR code:The web-based version is available here: http://mobilehealthrankings.theprimacy.comThe Mobile Health Rankings for My Community application is location-aware and shows County Health Data based on the location of the user. For example, if the user launches the application in New Haven, Connecticut, the application will display the New Haven County Health Rankings information along with helpful links and other information. The rankings data, provided by the County Health Rankings service (http://www.countyhealthrankings.org), is displayed on the user’s phone in a friendly and easy to use format.  The user is presented with an overall rankings screen first,  which shows the main six rankings categories, and can then drill down to see details for each rankings category along with helpful links and other county information. The mobile application uses Augmented Reality technology and runs on Layar – the world’s leading Augmented Reality browser.  The Mobile Health Rankings for My Community applications retrieves data from a Web Service, developed using Microsoft .NET technology. For more information please visit Acsys Healthcare Developer Challenge Blog site:http://health2challenge.org/acsyshealthcare/About Health 2.0 Developer Challenge:The 2010 Health 2.0 Developer Challenge was launched on June 2nd, 2010 at the Community Health Data Initiative (CHDI) meeting at the IOM, with support from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). More info: http://health2challenge.orgAbout Layar:Layar is the world's leading Augmented Reality Platform on mobile. The Layar Reality Browser has more than 1.8 million users and serves 1.2 million augmented objects every day. The browser will come pre-installed on tens of millions of phones from leading handset manufacturers and carriers by the end of the year. More info: http://www.layar.com