Northwestern freshman creates health care app focused on developing countries
The Daily Northwester | April 8, 2014 | Olivia Exstrum
A Northwestern University freshman and a team of students at several universities across the nation developed an app, StandardHealth, that provides health and medical information through SMS text messaging in an effort to create easily accessible health-related data, primarily for individuals in developing countries.
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Although the app doesn’t have the ability to give treatment or treatment advice, it is composed of three components: a health information database, a health information logger and electronic health records. The health information database is focused on presenting information through CrowdSourceMed, a program currently being developed which provides crowd sourced medical explanations and definitions in a variety of languages.
