Health Score

Health Score is a mobile iPhone app that will provide users with a Score based on a test of questions generated from healthfinder.gov information & will act as a guide to maintain basic health and prevent diseases. We hope Health Score will become the new norm for being healthy.

https://www.healthtechhatch.com/project/health-score

Features:

Daily audio tip using the healthfinder Healthbeat.

Celebrity health news streaming.

Test questions based on nutrition, physical activity, mental health & doctor visits.

Score will be out of 100.

Will track old scores by date, name, gender & age in a graphical format.

Ability to create health score circle and to view scores of others in the health score circle.

Users can invite family & friends to join the health score circle.

User will have the ability to tweet the score.

Test Questions will be presented

with multiple choice answer selection.

Hint screen information from healthfinder.gov to get user to navigate healthfinder information.

Based on healthtechhatch feedback this screen will also include:

fun audio for applause when answer is correct and a ding when the answer is wrong. Also will include audio to prompt user to look at the hint.

Tools to measure how healthy the user is.

Test Results Enhancements to the result

screen based on healthtechheatch feedback will include the following:

Score will be presented graphically.

Score will be linked to some type of rewards.

User will have the ability to share the score only within the health score circle. Also the ability show age only of the users chooses to.

Prompt user on next steps to improve score by highlighting one of the four areas of Nutrition, Physical Activity, Doctor Visits or Mental Health that need more focus.

Presenting a comparison of the score to other users of the same gender and age in the app community. Users will also have the ability to turn this feature off.

Nutrition

The “Nutrition” link will have the following features:

Diet information to prevent the top five health problems of heart disease, cancer. diabetes, obesity & disorder of the GI tract.

Tips for better eating on a budget.

Recipe finder.

Ability to share tips & recipes through email, Facebook & Twitter.

Doctors Visits

The “Doctors Visits” will have the following features:

Healthfinder widget to provide recommended routine screenings.

Find a doctor.

My family health history. Users will be able to email this to themselves, other family members, physicians etc.

Checklists of questions to take for doctor visits.

Physical Activity & Mental Health The “Physical Activity” link will

have the following features:

We will use the healthfinder 'Get active' widget here to guide users on how to be active.

Find walking/running groups near by.

The “Mental Health” link will have the following features:

Daily quotes from favorite authors, poets etc.

Positive steps to mental health.

Crossword puzzles

Today's Tip

Today's Tip functionality would send a daily push notification to the users on different topics related to health and nutrition.

On accepting the notification, the daily podcast could be downloaded or listened online.

This podcast is integrated with healthfinder's Healthbeat.

Resources

https://www.healthtechhatch.com/project/health-score

http://www.healthfinder.gov