Checkup Tracker - for the Healthfinder.gov Challenge - from Medfoundry

1. “My kids grew up before the app age, but I would
have like to have had a tool like this to help me
manage their well child needs.”
– HealthTechHatch comment

2. PROBLEM AND APPROACH
CHALLENGE PROPOSAL
Even parents with access to For busy parents who need to
the best healthcare find it track their well-child care,
confusing to know how often we're developing a
their child needs to be seen for personalized mobile
well-child care and why so application to help with
many appointments are scheduling, planning, and
necessary. recording their child or
children’s well-care checkups.
For a significant proportion of
the population, this problem is Our hypothesis is that
compounded by frequent demystifying and supporting
moves, shared child-care the well-child checkup process
responsibilities, and will improve compliance with
uncertainty about health care best practice guidelines,
coverage. improving health outcomes for
the participants.
“Great app! I wish I had it when my daughter was
really small. As a new parent, I wasn't able to keep
track of her vaccine schedule and she ended up
having multiple sorts to be on time for school. I felt
really bad.” – HealthTechHatch comment

3. FUNCTIONALITY AND CONSTRAINTS
The main functionality that CheckupTracker • For this app, we restricted app functionality
provides is: to client-side code and access to
healthfinder.gov content. This technical
• Ability to store data about well-child approach will minimize the work required to
checkup schedules and results integrate with the healthfinder.gov site and
minimize user’s concerns about privacy of
• Access to age-specific well-child their information.
content from healthfinder.gov • Naturally this decision restricts us from
backing up users data “in the cloud”
• Interaction with that trusted
automatically, but also minimizes risk of
information in the form of questions exposure of patient-confidential health
that serve as started conversations information.
with the child’s health care provider.
• The app is designed to run on iOS devices
• Ability to process the information and Android devices due to the use of a
recorded at the checkups to generate cross-platform UI (user interface) library –
jQuery Mobile.
a record of vaccinations and other
data health data that is useful and/or
interesting to parents.

4. CO-DESIGN: WE RECEIVED OUTSTANDING
FEEDBACK FROM THE CO-DESIGN PROCESS
QUANTITY OF FEEDBACK QUALITY OF FEEDBACK
• 14 aggregate comments from 8 I was extremely impressed with the
individuals on the “test” quality of feedback from
healthtechhatch, which
• 6 questionnaires completed
• Clearly validated the app concept
and confirmed need for the
Key themes included application
• Tying in to calendaring apps • Provided critical feedback to be
(personal and professional, eg. incorporated into the version 1.0
ZocDoc) (MS to research feasibility); release
• Sharing information as a way to • Indicated several possible
partner on parenting (Likely for directions for a future feature
version 2 – requires server-side roadmap
application development);
• Tactical suggestions (MS working to
incorporate in version 1)
• Lack of demand for sharing on
social networks (which saves
development time!)

5. EVALUATION CRITERIA
Criteria Response
Usability & Design The Checkup Tracker app is engineered to comply with the emerging best practices in
mobile design. Additional usability testing would be applied to this initial version to refine
the usability.
Health Literacy Principles We’ve used simplified language where possible in the User Interface. Content is geared
to match Healthfinder.gov language.
Connection to Clinical Preventive The whole emphasis of the app is to encourage better, more frequent access to
preventive care.
Services & Wellness Information High-quality, targeted content from Healthfinder.gov is embedded in the flow of the user’s
work.
Evidence of Co-Design with End User Please review the comments from the HealthTechHatch – they’re quite encouraging.
Innovation in Design User adoption is driven not by bells and whistles, but by solving a real problem in a
targeted, efficient manner.
Functionality & Accuracy The functionality is tightly focused on the tasks supported by the app.
healthfinder.gov Branding Provided on the splash screen (not shown in demo) and the About page. I’d look forward
to collaborating on further branding.
“Is there any additional information you would
like to provide concerning this product? I'd love
to use this and would absolutely recommend it
to my friends and family.”
– HealthTechHatch comment