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IMPAct: Interactive Medical Planner ACTing on your health

• IMPAct is a website application that creates an interactive medical calendar that allows you and your family to keep track of all your medical appointments as well as make sure that you and your family are on track with your personalized doctor's appointments.

• GOAL: to help inform users of their recommended screenings needed, based on their sex and age and to promote doctors visits. IMPAct will address a variety of health topics and promote a healthier life.

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Features

Google CalendarsCalendars can be

synced to: iPhoneAndroid

Blackberry Microsoft Outlook

CustomizableA family’s

personalized medical appointments in one

placeAdd location via Google maps for

specific appointments

EducationalEach appointment

gives:An accurate description

An educational fact or statistic from the

HIW or other source

User FriendlyTutorial Videos

Provided Two Step Process

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Features

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Detailed Calendars for:

GeriatricsExpectant Mothers

Calendars based on:

Family History Culture Lifestyle

Filtered List of Doctors:

List of well-recommended doctors in the users vicinity

Smartphone App:

App for iPhone, Android, and

Blackberry

Future of IMPAct

Principles of Usability applied to the IMPAct System (Dix, Findlay, Abowd, & Beale 2004,Human-ComputerInteraction)

Learnability (the ease with which new users can begin effective interaction and achieve maximal performance)

•Predictability– Each age group and/or health screening guidelines performs in the same

manner over life•Generalizability– Can be used for the entire lifespan of an individual

•Consistency– Each tab, guideline and age group sequence performs in the same manner

with the same headingsFlexibility (the multiplicity of ways the user and system exchange information)

• Dialogue initiative–Appointments and selected information entered directly onto familiar

calendar system• Multithreading

– Multiple age groups can be placed on a single calendar• Task migratability–User can change dates and reset system when changes in guidelines are

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Principles of Usability cont...Flexibility cont...

• Substitutivity– Can be transferred and used from different computer systems ; desktop,

mobile app• Customizability– Specific age groups and populations can apply information to themselves,

friends and family

Robustness (support provided the user in determining successful achievement of goal-directed behaviour)

• Observability– Familiarity with Google system and outlook allows user to troubleshoot and

adjust system•Recoverability–Use can take corrective action once an error has been recognized

•Responsiveness– Rapid rate of communication with the system– Stable

• Task conformance–Guidelines and calendar population is complete and adequate

Topics Leading to Project Design:

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• Pediatrics• Complete vaccination among children• Proportion of preschool children aged 5

years and under who receive vision screening

• Women 18-65• Female breast cancer deaths (Per 100,000) • Percent of women age 18+ that report Pap

smear • Men 18-65

• Number of male deaths due to prostate cancer (ICD-10 codes C61)

• Men and Women• Annual seasonal flu vaccine• Proportion of adults who have had their

blood cholesterol checked within the preceding 5 years

• Percent of adults age 50+ that report ever having had a sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy

Health Indicator Warehousehttp://www.healthindicators.gov

• Vaccines for diseases protection• Hepatitis C - declined from an average of

450,000 in the 1980s to about 80,000 in 1999 due to vaccination. 5,000 persons will die each year from hepatitis B-related liver disease resulting in over $700 million in medical and work loss costs.

• Measles - In 1960 (before vaccine), 3 to 4 million cases/yr , 48,000 children hospitalized/each year with 400 to 500 deaths from complications. In 2008, 140 cases in US.

• Screenings for early cancer detection that have up to 90% cure rates (CDC, 2007)• Colorectal; 2nd male cancer, and 3rd in

women –142, 672 diagnosed; 53,219 deaths (U.S).

• Prostate; 1st male cancer – 223,307 diagnosed; 29,093 deaths (U.S).

• Breast; 2nd female cancer – 202,964 diagnosed; 40,598 deaths (U.S.).

Effective Examples of Routine Preventive Healthcare

Additional Tools:

• The Facebook page will maintain awareness of different health issues, promoting action and preventative care. This tool will allow not only people in the community to promote a healthy life but a broader audience as well.

• Tutorial:

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Double-click to see video

This tutorial will provide step by step instructions on how to use the IMPActapplication.

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Healthcare prevention is

complex and age specific but vital

because preventive

healthcare saves lives!

Organization and scheduling for

vaccinations, examinations and

screenings requires a great deal of

information and time.

A well-designed, easy-

to-use, flexible,

ubiquitous and robust

healthcare device can

quickly and thoroughly

organize preventive

healthcare for all

family members on a

familiar calendar

The IMPAct

application can

readily provide a

flexible calendar that

schedules you and

your family’s routine

healthcare for the

rest of your healthy

lives!

We would like to thank our mentors for all their support and guidance:

• Anne-Marie O’Brien• Kimberly Shea• Richard Filley• Vin Pizziconi

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