Hello all,
I am a resident physician in Internal Medicine (Rush Medical Center) and
I
started a registered 501©3 non-profit corporation (MedReferrals) to
connect underserved patients to healthcare. My co-founder is the CEO of
Prominence Advisors, a healthcare IT consulting group. Our non-profit
has
received a QlikView non-profit grant for data visualization. Prominence
advisors is providing technical backing for development of a tool to
visualize open city data, but we need a Ruby developer to build a web
application that allows for input of patient characteristics and output
of
community health centers accessible to that patient.
The problem: Uninsured and underserved patient are often high-utilizers
of
tertiary care, academic medical centers (Rush, Northwestern, U of C,
UIC,
Loyola) when they are extremely sick, but they lack access to care in
their
own neighborhood to stay healthy.
The two-fold solution: A web-based tool that enables case managers,
social
workers, physicians, and non-profits to search for accessible care for
their patient. In combination with the web-based tool, is a data portal
to
show the importance of community health centers through visualization of
City of Chicago open data.
We are a small operation, and willing to bring you on and give you the
shine you deserve. We are well situated in the industry and have access
to
major hospitals and many physicians for validation and expansion, and
creation of more opportunities.
This is a perfect project for someone who is either looking to make a
social impact, or for someone looking for a high-impact portfolio
project.
We are a non-profit, and our goal is solving the problem, not generating
revenue. That said, we have access to CMO’s of many area healthcare
systems
and they are aware of the project.
Please let me know if you can help.
Regards,
Devin D. Mehta, MD
devindmehta[at]gmail[dot]com