project:compare-hospitals

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This small app uses open statistic data in order compare hospitals in Switzerland.

In 2008/2009 a study was done to compare approximately 200 hospitals across the country using a range of quality indicators, such as waiting time in emergency rooms, and the types of cases handled. This data is freely available, and there is a Web app which can be used to run queries against the data, comparing one or more hospital/s to each other based on a selection of criteria.

In this project, we started developing a mobile app which presents a user-friendly view into this data, and has the potential of visualizing the information in innovative ways. Also see Heath Data Visualization for web-based maps of this data.

In late 2012, the project was continued as part of an internship at Apps with love GmbH]. The results of this further development have been summarized and presented to the [[http://www.bag.admin.ch/|Swiss Department of Health in a short paper. A prototype binary of the app can be downloaded and installed at your own risk (you must enable non-App Store software in Settings first).

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