Tech Labs

Tech Labs is a technology playground for Thoughtful House Center for Children where we showcase a few of our favorite ideas, prototypes, tool, and gadgets. Tech Labs tends to focus on providing visibility to complex datasets related to childhood developmental disorders. Some of the work is from www.fightingautism.org which is now part of Thoughtful House. All of the development of Tech Labs is done by Thoughtful House staff, consultants and volunteers.

Graduates of Tech Labs

Intake Patient Demographics

Description:: In May of 2008 we deployed an online intake system to enable us to track and manage the intake process and provide better patient care. We release patient demographics from this system. Status: Completed

Autism Prevalence Rates

Description: A web based graphing tool which provides U.S. autism disability data, rates, statistics, incidence and prevalence. Status: Completed

Disability Prevalence Trends

Description: A web based graphing tool which provides disability prevalence trends for the past 16 years. Status: Completed

Vaccine Compliance Rates

Description: A web based graphing tool which provides vaccine coverage rates, estimated number of children vaccinated, and estimated vaccine market capitalization. Status: Coming very soon

Visualizing Autism

Description: A collection of austism prevalence maps and Interactive GIS mapping applets. We also work with researchers by sharing our collection of disability data that spans school districts and counties in a couple of states. Status: Completed

NIH Autism Grants

Description: A catalog of all NIH-funded autism research grants for the last 27 years – 4,850 grant awards in a single database. The database provides researchers and analysts access to the grant awards for the study of trends in autism research. The data was harvested from over 15,000 government web pages. NIH provided some of this data via the CRISP database, however CRISP displays data for a single grant award at a time. Status: Completed

Graduate Hopefuls

Vaccine Averse Event Reporting System (VAERS)

• Description: A new VAERS web application which provides researchers more transparency to the VAERS data.
• Status: Coming soon

Vaccine Schedule Database

• Description: A database framework to enable researchers to track changes to the vaccine schedule, including tracking changes and permutations (min/max) in vaccine components (i.e. thimerosal, aluminum, preservatives, etc.) over the different vaccine schedule years. It will also have a public Application Program Interface (API) to allow 3rd party organizations to validate whether a vaccine is on or off schedule. For example, you could cycle through every VAERS report to check if the vaccine(s) is on schedule or off schedule.
• Status: Preliminary prototype is completed.