My (Attempt) at a Public Health Infrastructure

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My (Attempt) at a Public Health Infrastructure

At the beginning of the pandemic there was lots of talk about public health infrastructure etc... and I read this article [1]. This is my idea/vision of how a public health infrastrcture could look/work. I decided to focus on the intersection of health and education first because (see below) 1: Its an intresting problem that impacts peoples lives in a big way 2: I have worked for lots of edtech companies 3: I am really into health and wellness 4: I was raised by my dad because my mother was in and out of facilities due to mental illess 5: Racial Profiling [2] is not my biggest issue, menthal helth is First thing I needed to do was understand the problem, current state of things and where I could improve / what metrics etc.. The main problems I see are that... 1: Mental Health is to "reactionary". Something happens, peole focus on it for a week or so then move on. 2: Mental Health servcies dont scale very well under the curent model 3: Not everyone has the same idea of what it means to be mentally healthy or how to get there 4: Gen-Z should IMO be more involoved in the process of what/how 5: Its too disconnected, IMO if a program works in one place other places should be able to adopt that programs best practices The concept I settled on was to create a tool that lets school districts (and later state public health depts.) create a baseline mental health and wellness protocol expressed as an automated digital workflow. Basicly population health management based on custom workflows. I knew the system would need to be multi tenant, each "tenant" e.g.: LAUSD, SFUSD etc... has its own database. So I need a "Publishing" type of mechanism for program management so tenants can share programs etc... I am now at the point where I have been able to do the following 1: Create a program [3] 2: Publish it 3: Get program request on tenant admin 4: Approve from dashboard 5: Visit tenant page and follow program to completion (paid and free) 6: Import population 7: Manage population as they complete program My next step is to complete the FHIR integration and integrate OpenAI so each program manager (aka: creator) has an ai assistant to help them manage/create programs and add more Modules. Note: Phase 1 was schools and Phase 2 is state health depts. My dad worked for metro (nashville) social services for 30+ years, just retired; so i talked to him about processes etc... and I am going to codify their programs too as well as provide multi-district population view for workers but its probably going to be end of Jan maybe Feb before I can roll out that beta. Note: Currently all tenants e.g.: lausd.health, aacps.health, cps.health etc...redirect to the wellness page of the ditricts existing website. I am sending each district their login e.g: admin.sfusd.health where they can approve program request and all that kind of stuff if they want. In the meantime I am creating programs based on their current wellness policies. Note: My fist choice is to give the tool to the ditrict but if they dont want it I have been able to identify at least one other group in each area that is intrested. Note: If you login and want to use the "Protocol Builder" you can upload any image where it says ID and Ill approve it. Note: I am currently working on documentation and help text etc... [1] - https://a16z.com/2020/04/18/its-time-to-build/ [2] - https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/crowdsource-police-review... [3] - An example program would be something like: A: send a check-in assessment 2x per month B: based on result of assessment schedule follow up with care team member C: send nudges 3x per week w/ optional feedback D: ... Ive been up for a few days and need to get some rest but will answer any questions anyone has. TY for taking the time to checkout my project.