We take this opportunity to acknowledge the Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islanders as the First Peoples and
Traditional Custodians of the lands and waterways of
Australia. We pay our respects to ancestors and Elders,
past and present. As part of the Australian National
University community we thank the traditional custodians
on whose land we live, work and play, and particularly
the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people of the Canberra
region.
We are developing technology and applications that put
privacy of our data first. In addition to our
collection of community apps (and support packages) that
we highlight below, our focussing project is lead by the
Gurriny Yealamucka Health Service Aboriginal Corporation
(GYHSAC) in Yarrabah, North Queensland. Working with our
team at the Software Innovation Institute (SII) of the
Australian National University they have built a
first-of-a-kind digital health platform to support
integrated health care of Indigenous patients with
diabetes. SII is using Solid Pod technologies to ensure
that individual patients have the ownership of their own
health data. Clinic patients get the following benefits
from this platform:
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Better communication between patients and the health
clinic to maintain health;
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Patients retain full control over their own sensitive
health data with better privacy and security;
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Encourage traditional food and medicine intake for
better health care.
Since May 2024 we have been running a trial of the
GYHSAC
Patient App with community patients in
Yarrabah. This pilot study has demonstrated the
possibilities of Solid Pods for returning data
sovereignty to the individual, through deploying a
prototype infrastructure on the community server
at yarrabah.net.
In parallel to this project
the ANU Software
Innovation Institute is developing the open-source
solidpod
package for flutter to support developers of apps who
also want to use Solid Pods for their data store.
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