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Data Specification for Flu (& Other Vaccination) Locations #39

Open mheadd opened 9 years ago

mheadd commented 9 years ago

Last year, the City of Philadelphia developed a data specification for cities that wanted to publish flu shot locations. Philly, Chicago and SF all ended up using it to publish flu shot locations last year.

No idea if anyone will opt to use it this year, and into the future. Would be great to see stewardship of this data specification taken over by CfA.

fureigh commented 9 years ago

Long Beach, Calif. and Los Angeles are using it this year. What does stewardship of the data specification entail?

greggish commented 9 years ago

Looks like it's not all that far from the Open Referral specification ~ flu shots are a service provided at places! Could there be alignment here?

mheadd commented 9 years ago

Hmm, that actually might make sense - I see a lot of overlap between service/locations in Open Referral and the flu shot spec. Additionally, the flu shots spec should cover other kinds of inoculations as well, so maybe it is better incorporated into OR.

What would need to be done to fold it into OR?

mheadd commented 9 years ago

Several of the cities that have adopted the flu shot location spec - Philly, Chicago, NYC, San Francisco - had input into the current version. I would think that we would want to solicit their thoughts on the possibility of folding this into OR.

greggish commented 9 years ago

Right. It's a good use case. Let me know how i can help with this.

greggish commented 9 years ago

Okay. We already have adoption of OR in chicago and San Francisco, and I've spoken with many in NYC. I'd be happy to make a presentation, and/or recruit someone to help with gap analysis -- let me know where/when.

mheadd commented 9 years ago

Looping in @tkompare who's built an app that uses data that conforms to the current flu shot spec format.

mheadd commented 9 years ago

@greggish - I'm happy to help with gap analysis and to take part in any discussions with cities.

greggish commented 9 years ago

Awesome!

FYI, the Open Referral spec is currently in v0.4 -- @spara is driving it to 1.0 by January. There will be a formal comment period along the way (early December I believe) so there's the possibility for, say, tweaking based on insights that you all have gleaned from deployment.