OSF HealthCare is also creating digital resources to systematically gather information during mobile clinics to help resolve social determinants of health – obstacles beyond the medical office that affect access to care and vaccination, including transportation, food, and income, among others.
FREMONT, CA: Given the availability of free routine immunizations for low-income families through the federal program, many children are not vaccinated, vaccinated late for age, or do not complete the immunization plan. Peoria, Illinois-based OSF HealthCare aims to improve this.
With almost $75,000 in grant funding available through its Jump ARCHES initiative and almost $30,000 in state grant funding through the Illinois Innovation Network, OSF Innovation and its partners are using artificial intelligence (AI) software to plan, develop and launch a mobile child vaccination program for underserved communities in Illinois.
Grants leverage the expertise of the OSF HealthCare Innovation Design Lab where ideas can be developed, tested and optimized for practical use. Design Lab Director Scott Barrows says teams at OSF Jump Simulation and the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Peoria (UICOMP) will utilize machine learning algorithms to create artificial intelligence (AI) models designed to reliably classify geographic areas with the greatest need for childhood vaccinations.
OSF HealthCare is also creating digital resources to systematically gather information during mobile clinics to help resolve social determinants of health – obstacles beyond the medical office that affect access to care and vaccination, including transportation, food, and income, among others.
"We will be both gathering information, anonymous information, plus applying new apps and new ways to gather information about what are a community's needs and some of them are quite dramatic," as per Barrows.
"The social determinants of health impacts everything really and that is involved in almost every app and technological intervention we create. It is critical. That is something OSF has really focused on."
