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Lyme Symptom Tracker app by Global Lyme Alliance and TrialX launched in 2019 with the HHS TOP Health tech sprint. The free app is designed for Lyme disease patients to easily track their daily symptoms and securely share with their healthcare provider. Users can search for and connect with relevant clinical studies. Data collected provides valuable insight into disease trends and statistics. Available for Android and Apple devices.

The University of California, San Francisco Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center (HDFCCC) is the most recent institution to sign up for the CureTalks’ exclusive institutional level talk series. This UCSF video podcast series is called CureTalks@UCSFCancer and is an initiative that brings a new dimension to patient-centric care and engagement.

ResearchDroid is an Android library developed to automate survey forms and the information-building process. Appbakery integrates ResearchKit and ResearchDroid, enabling researchers to create apps without requiring programming skills.

Jointly organized by the Office of the Chief Technology Officer and Presidential Innovation Fellows, the 14-week challenge cum sprint selected half a dozen leading technology companies, including TrialX, to create digital tools based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and open government data, to facilitate easy access to experimental therapies for patients and vice versa.

Global Lyme Alliance (GLA), the leading 501 (c)(3) dedicated to conquering Lyme and other tick-borne diseases through research, education and awareness, and TrialX Appbakery, a revolutionary digital health platform to build patient-centric data collection apps, presented their new Lyme Symptom Tracker mobile app at the HHS’s ‘“The Opportunity Project (TOP) Health Tech Sprint” on Thursday, February 28, 2019 at The White House.

The 14-week “TOP Health” tech sprint concluded with 10 teams delivering digital tools — built with Federal data and emerging technologies like AI — to improve clinical trials, experimental therapies, and data-driven solutions for complex challenges from cancer to Lyme and tick-borne diseases.

Health Informatics: Practical Guide focuses on the application of information technology in healthcare to improve individual and population health, education and research. The goal of the seventh edition is to stimulate and educate healthcare and IT professionals and students about the key topics in this rapidly changing field. Dr. William Hersh from Oregon Health & Science University is the co-editor and author of multiple chapters. Topics include Health Informatics (HI) overview, electronic health records, healthcare data analytics, health information exchange, architecture of information systems, evidence-based medicine, consumer health informatics, HI ethics, quality improvement strategies and more. The 22 chapters feature learning objectives, case studies, recommended reading, future trends, key points, conclusions and over 1800 references. It is available as a paperback and an eBook. Visit the textbook companion website at http://informaticseducation.org/ for more information.