DataDrivenMD

Many communities around the world are finding themselves in dire need of trained medical professionals and first-responders to deal with an influx of critically ill COVID-19 patients. Other areas need volunteers to work at food banks and shelters.

The demand for resources will wax-and-wane as local outbreaks are identified and then addressed. The supply of resources will likewise be dynamic. For example, there are many retired, semi-retired, and part-time doctors, nurses, and EMT staff who are able and willing to help. There’s currently no way for people to know where or when they are needed. The HN community can help.

The mission would be to build an open-source platform QUICKLY that could be used by communities around the world with little-to-no deployment overhead. If successful, the final product makes it possible for community leaders to partner with 1-2 developers that would clone the repo, customize a few parameters, and deploy instances in less than an hour.

I am a physician and an engineer with product development and full-stack experience, but I can’t do it alone. Any help is appreciated, particularly with the following immediate needs:

- Experienced PM who can flesh out the specs further and assume ownership of the roadmap. This would free me to focus my efforts on coordinating with public health officials, healthcare providers, and (if needed) to help care for patients on the front lines.

- DevSecOps lead with open-source experience and a reputation for QUICKLY building consensus involving key technical decisions. This would allow me to focus my technical contributions to those involving clinical data pipelines.

- Open-source community manager who would own all the engineering components that are not directly part of the product - this includes the project landing page, community rules, and offering assistance/guidance to developers around the world who are looking to deploy the platform.

Anybody interested in helping out?