The Institute of Medicine and the Avon Foundation for Women announced the winners of their global challenge to create apps that would help prevent domestic violence. The 3rd and 4th place winners built apps specifically for healthcare providers, so I thought I would share them here.
From the announcement:
3rd Place: R3
R3 is an app that assists health care providers to recognize, respond, and refer victims of domestic abuse. Only 10 percent of physicians regularly screen for domestic violence in part because they lack an evidence-based screening tool and knowledge of what to do if they identify someone in need. The R3 app gives providers a set of four questions that has been tested and shown to effectively identify victims of abuse. An automatic scoring function links to recommendations on what to do based on a patient’s score. A resource locator identifies local providers of domestic abuse services using the device’s geolocation feature. The app also links to additional references and information, including videos and referral protocols.
R3 is available at http://www.harborhousefl.com/2012/01/r3-app-2/.
4th Place: HealtheSAVE
The HealtheSAVE team aims to help health care providers better recognize patients who have experienced violence, ask them about that experience, and refer them to appropriate services. The team is developing a website that will be tied to social media platforms and a mobile app. These tools will educate providers about how to incorporate violence prevention into patient care and put references and resources at their fingertips. HealtheSAVE also will provide educational handouts and tools to educate patients about abuse, their rights, and resources for aid and fund continuing education and training for providers. HealtheSAVE’s developers are also designing their products to be useful to international users as well, providing links to global resources and designing their tools to work across a broad range of platforms and providers.
HealtheSAVE is available at http://www.healthesave.org.
{You can see the full list of winners and screen shots of their apps here.}