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The document discusses several apps for health-related purposes including food/weight loss, allergies, fitness, sleep/pulse monitoring, and menstrual cycle tracking. It then summarizes an initiative in New South Wales called "Apps for NSW - Collaborative Solutions for Health" which aims to combine open government data initiatives and business collaboration programs to develop commercially viable mobile health apps. It provides an overview of four challenges that were run under this initiative, with the winning and highly commended apps for areas like medication management, hospital services, and healthcare cycles of care.
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- 3. Apps for health • Food, Weight loss • Additives • Allergies • Diabetes • Coeliac disease • Fitness • Sleep monitor • Pulse monitor • Asthma • Tai Chi, Yoga • Menstrual cycle tracker • Prostate checker • Risk calculator • Vitamin D calculator
- 4. NSW ICT Strategy 2012
- 5. ICT Strategy – Key Initiatives Service NSW: A new service culture that is responsive to community needs. Open Government: Fresh approach to engaging with the public and industry through online and social media technologies. Open Data: Making government data available to stimulate the development of innovative approaches to service delivery. Infrastructure and Managed Services: Taking advantage of consolidation, virtualisation, sourcing as a service and cloud technologies. Procurement Reform: New approach to ICT procurement to enable early engagement and better value expenditure. Managing Information for Better Services: Framework of common information standards across government and using information better to enhance service delivery. ICT Skills and Innovation: Building public sector ICT skills with the assistance of industry and the research sector.
- 6. Open Data • Make high quality government datasets available to industry and the community • Stimulate innovative solutions to service delivery and the provision of information Key Elements Government data • Enhance data.nsw.gov.au to make more government data available in machine readable formats and through visualisations, web tools and mapping services – 6-12 months Information and data licensing • Develop an easy to understand open access licensing framework that encourages access and reuse while protecting personal and other confidential information – immediate commencement apps4nsw • Challenge software developers to create new web and mobile applications and service delivery solutions using government data • Host two apps4nsw events – 9-12 months
- 7. Apps • Mobile solutions are lightweight software that is increasingly popular for the delivery of government services. They take advantage of mobility technologies, smart sensors, and high-speed connectivity to provide innovative and new-to-market solutions. • This is a pilot initiative to combine – consider it a mash-up – of two successful NSW Government programs, Collaborative Solutions and apps4nsw.
- 8. Apps 4 NSW • apps4nsw, an initiative of the Department of Finance and Services, is a program designed to increase the use of NSW Government data, improving service delivery and promoting open government. Winning the Premier’s award for ‘Innovation through Technology’ in 2011, apps4nsw has been identified as a priority in the NSW Government ICT Strategy 2012.
- 9. Collaborative Solutions • Collaborative Solutions, an initiative of the Department of Trade & Investment, is a program to facilitate businesses collaborations in developing new-to-market ICT solutions with export potential. The program has supported 17 project consortia with potential to create, over their next three years, over 600 jobs and $250 million dollars in revenue, including $180 million in exports.
- 10. Apps 4 Health • apps4nsw - collaborative solutions for health attempts to combine the provision of NSW Government data sets to drive new value propositions achieved in apps4nsw and the industry collaboration to deliver commercially-ready solutions achieved in Collaborative Solutions.
- 11. Apps 4 Health • The first apps4nsw - collaborative solutions for health round focuses on the key area of health data, as an area of significance for the community, for Government and to industry. The solutions developed will focus on improving public health. • The plan would be delivered in three stages through a partnership between Health, DFS and T&I. It includes roles and responsibilities, timeline, terms and conditions for the competition and ideas for mobile Health solutions.
- 13. Challenges
- 14. Challenge 1
- 16. 1st Place My Patient List
- 17. Challenge 2
- 18. Highly Commended My Medical Services
- 19. 2nd Place Open Health Budget
- 20. 1st Place Safe Medication Management and Independence for the Visually Impaired
- 21. Challenge 3
- 22. Highly Commended Tiny Beans
- 23. 2nd Place My Hospital Food
- 24. 1st Place Breathe Right
- 25. Challenge 4
- 26. 2nd Place My Cycle of Care
- 28. People’s Choice
- 29. 2nd Place Emergency Departments NSW
- 31. Apps 4 Health • Important part of the landscape • Benefits outweigh the risks • Unlocks data and transforms it into useful information • Empowers patients and their carers • Competition strategies are a cost effective means of identifying key developments
- 32. • Thanks to colleagues from the Department of Finance and Services, Ministry of Health and Department of Trade and Investment • Get the data www.data.nsw.gov.au • Go to the website www.data.nsw.gov.au/apps4nsw • Follow us on Twitter #apps4nsw • Email us at datansw@services.nsw.gov.au • Like us on Facebook at NSW ICT Strategy
Editor's Notes
- Welcome / introduce yourself / pleased to have the opportunity to be part of this eventAcknowledgment of Country:Before we begin the proceedings, I would like to acknowledge and pay respect to the traditional owners of the land on which we meet – the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. It is upon their ancestral lands that the Parliament of NSW is built.Introduce / invite our host, Minister for Finance & Services. Hon. Greg Pearce to provide opening remarks
- Objective - a program designed to increase the use of NSW Government data, improving service delivery and promoting open government by facilitating industry collaborations to develop innovative and new-to-market solutions.The winners and runners-up were evaluated by judges drawn from across government and industry, with a separate category for People’s choice decided through online voting. Even though we had set evaluation criteria, evaluation was very difficult because of the high calibre of applications.Note that judging was “blind” and based on the quality of the entry, and several apps submitted by one team have won prizes today.35 entries received across 4 challenge categoriesIntroduce Greg Wells to outline the challenges
- (see separate sheet – to be addressed by Greg)Thank GregOutline what each winner will receive:The winner in each Challenge category receives a $5,000 incentive grant from Department of Finance & Services. The winner & runner up in each Challenge category receives mentoring and development assistance from NSW Health, NSW Trade and Investment and NICTA. And with thanks to our sponsors Samsung and Nine Fold - the winner of the People’s Choice award receives a Galaxy Tab 10.1 and $1,000 in cloud hosting. The runner up receives a Galaxy Tab 7.2.
- Invite the Minister for Health to present the awards for challenges 1 & 2The following entries have been selected by the judges for challenge 1
- In second place –eGuidelinesI’d like to invite Joanne Curry from StayWell Health Solutions to accept the awardThe app will:provide medical staff with simple and rapid access to latest scientifically proven information ability to create electronic referrals should specialist care be required. The use of evidence-based-best practices can bring benefits to both clinicians and patients alike as it increases the likelihood of faster and more accurate diagnosis and treatment, decreases the chance of unnecessary testing, reduces the possibility of litigation against medical staff, and promotes confidence in the care delivered.
- In first place – My patient list I’d like to invite Anthony Barker to accept the awardThe app will:allow doctors to have a mobile version of the current paper based system for a Clinician's patient list. The current system relies on printing the patient list daily and updating it sporadically during the day as new patients are added and others discharged. If lost, there is no ability to recover the tasks and information recorded manually. Not only will an electronic version of the patient list allow the important tasks of the day to be set up as reminders to ensure their completion, it will also provide real time patient test results while on ward rounds. The outcome of this is improved clinician efficiency and patient safety.
- (Minister for Health continues to present the awards)The following entries have been selected by the judges for challenge 2
- Highly Commended –My Medical ServicesI’d like to invite Joanne Curry from StayWell Health Solutions to accept the awardThe app will:provide information that will allow the public to select the most appropriate service for their needs at a location that is geographically convenient, Provide information in a timely manner, personalised to the users’ needs. Encourage the community to effectively utilise health services more appropriately and ultimately keep non-critical cases out of the emergency department Increase the use of GP Super Clinics The app will allow the user to search for a service based on the time of day, their current location and known waiting time. It will extend the concepts of the current NSW government emergency waiting times website into a mobile domain and will help achieve the Medicare Local and GP Super Clinic objectives
- In second place –Open Health BudgetI’d like to invite Robbie Wain from 2 guys 1 app to accept the awardThe app will:provide an interactive visualisation of this important government data set Users begin with a high level overview of the budget. They can then click into segments of the pie chart to access increasing levels of detail right down to specific project costsProviding the public with access to tools like this will raise the awareness of the budget and enable system change.
- In first place – Safe Medication Management and Independence for the Visually ImpairedI’d like to invite Steve Cohen to accept the awardThe app will:through a scanned QR Bar Code convert drug label instructions and information from text to speech.This will allow the visually-impaired patient an increased and informed level of independence, confidence and safety in managing and taking their medication.
- Thank the Minister for HealthInvite the Minister for Finance and Services to present the awards for challenges 3 and 4The following entries have been selected by the judges for challenge 3
- Highly Commended –Tiny BeansI’d like to invite Sarah-Jane Kurtini from Tiny Beans to accept the awardThe app will:allow parents to upload their children's daily moments in real-time, to be shared with family and friends recommend books and toys that are appropriate to the child's age, gender, and developmental progressremind parents of upcoming vaccinations and medical appointmentsrecommend weekend activities or special events
- In this challenge category, both first and second place have been awarded to entries from StayWell Health Solutions, and I’d like to invite Joanne Curry to accept the awardsIn second place –My Hospital FoodThe app will:provide patients with a customised food ordering system for their in hospital stay. provide the ability to nominate food preferences and allergies such that hospital food services can customise available patient menu options.Allow clinicians and dieticians to nominate special dietary restrictions (e.g. clear fluids only) for patients thus ensuring they are provided with the appropriate food prior to and following clinical procedures or surgery. Has the potential to improve patient nutritional intake thus contributing to better overall medical outcomes. Caters for better food planning and purchasing for the hospital as patient requirements are known in advance.
- In first place – Breathe RightThe app will:provide people with timely information about air quality, pollen, and temperature changes to assist with travel and daily living planning as well as general personal environment management.This information can be used to pro-actively prepare for environmental changes and therefore reduce potential critical medical incidents. By providing alerts to users based on their current or known future location, consumers can take steps to increase preventative medication and plan to avoid specific areas that can put them at risk; all reducing stress levels due to unforeseen changes in the environment.
- (The Minister for Finance and Services continues to present awards)The following entries have been selected by the judges for challenge 4
- In second place –My Cycle of CareI’d like to invite Victor Phung from iHealth NSW to accept the awardThe app will:record relevant cycle of care information for patients with diabetes such as blood glucose, blood pressure, HbA1c, ACR test results, remind patients of ophthalmologist and podiatric appointments assist clinicians when completing a cycle of care reports. set automatic reminders from this data to increase treatment effectiveness.
- In first place – Grey BookI’d like to invite Joanne Curry from StayWell Health Solutions to accept the awardThe app will:encourage our ageing population to take ownership of their own health by providing a simple and friendly medium for those over the age of 50 to keep track of their personal health. include not only medical data such as medications and personal test results (ie: blood glucose or blood pressure readings) but also other factors such as emotions and feelings, exercise, social outings, nutritional intake and general wellness.allow data to be “pushed” to the “book” by the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) and Government and Professional bodies, regarding latest medical advances and research that relates to the “book owner”, such as new blood pressure medications.
- Thank Minister for Finance & ServicesOur final prizes have been decided through a public vote. The website attracted more than 4,000 votes I’d like to invite our Samsung sponsor Javier Santamarta to present awards
- In second place –Emergency Departments NSWI’d like to invite Mark McEntee from the Faculty of Health Science, University of Sydney to accept the awardThe app will:give patients convenient information on the emergency departments nearbyindicate location, directions, approximate waiting times and the number of patients that are already waiting. Individuals in NSW with moderate to mild emergencies that are travelling to hospital in transport other than an ambulance will be the main users. It will also be of use to GPs and other health professionals that may refer to emergency departments.