HealthMap

Develop an app or platform to crowd-source information for comparing changes in environmental factors, such as temperature, relative humidity, air pollution, with occurrence of symptoms of allergies and respiratory diseases. Create tools for public entry and grading of symptoms, including but not limited to cough, shortness of breath, wheezing, sneezing, nasal obstruction, itchy eyes; and geographic mapping of symptom frequency and intensity. Create a platform for comparison of symptom map with NASA provided data, with visualization options for web and/or smart phone.

“HealthMap” is a multi platform mobile application that crowd-sources information to compare environmental factors and occurrence of symptoms of allergies and respiratory diseases. Reporting of this data is simple, efficient, and intuitive. First off, users can learn about the names and the exact description of their allergy or respiratory disease symptoms through the media library in “HealthMap”. Next, our interactive wizard walks the user through various inquisitions to collect data such as type, frequency and intensity of the cough, personal stats, colour of the phlegm, symptoms experienced such as shortness of breath, wheezing, sneezing, nasal obstruction, or itchy eyes, diagnosis of the doctor, if available, and graphical selection of the latest locations that the user has been in. Automatic detection of the user’s current location, and collection of the corresponding environmental factors are also performed.

Our database is updated with user-filled data in realtime for a seamless system user interaction experience. The user can visualise all of the crowd-sourced data collected throughout the globe using either our mobile application, or our dedicated web portal. Each marker on our world map interface, a symptom map with NASA provided data, represents a report instance. Upon a simple click of such a marker, the user is shown a comprehensive and visually rich report of the health and environmental factors information to better conceptualise the relationship between them.

We have utilised the following resources during the development of the proposed solution:

1. Apache Cordova, AngularJS and Ionic

2. Twitter Bootstrap

3. Google Maps API

4. Google Maps Geocoding API

5. Firebase

6. Angular-charts

7. Mobile sensors

8. OpenWeatherMap API

9. CARMA API for Carbon Monitoring

10. The Lung Association Database (for respiratory diseases data)