AHOPE

Relieving the Opioid Epidemic

About the Opioid Epidemic

Opioids

Co-Occurring Epidemics: Spread of HIV and Hepatitis

AHOPE

Access

Harm Reduction

Overdose Prevention

Education

AHOPE is a harm reduction and needle exchange site providing a range of service to active injection drug users, including:

  • Integrated HIV/ Hepatitis/ and STI testing
  • Free, legal, and anonymous needle exchange
  • Supported referrals to HIV, Hepatitis, STI treatment, and medical
  • Overdose prevention education and training
  • Risk reduction supplies to reduce the spread of HIV and Hepatitis C infection
  • Risk reduction counseling
  • Supported referrals to all modalities of substance abuse treatment

AHOPE services are available at the walk-in center at 774 Albany Street and through mobile van and outreach sites around Boston

Problem Statement

People not getting the help they need

Due to inaccurate and incomplete data collection

Current Contact Interaction

First name

Mother's first name

Year of birth

New Contact?

Form A

Form B

Administer and Aggregate Data

Internal Use

Report to City

New

Recurring

Paper forms

Excel spreadsheet

Unknown @ collection

Locations:

  • Field: on foot or van
  • walk-in center

Referral Reports

Proposed Solution

Solution

Web App Tool

Get more people the help they need

Paper

Collection

Pilot
Mobile Collection

Monitor
and Adapt

Web App Tool

Personalized User Questions

Quicker Data Input

Customize Metrics

Optional for Data Collection

Basic Contact information retrieval in field/on-site

Optional data input from mobile device

View and administer data

Key metrics on Reports page

Single Source of Truth

Cost

Efficient

Feature Rich

Easy to

Maintain

Easy to

Scale

GEHC Reveal

OROCRM CE

FormStack

LimeSurvey

Google Sheets + Forms

Researched but n/a

Proposed Contact Interaction

First name

Mother's first name

Year of birth

New Contact?

Form A

Form B

Administrate and Aggregate Data

Internal Use

Report to City

New

Recurring

Paper forms

Locations:

  • Field: on foot or van
  • walk-in center

Digital Option on Mobile Device

Web App Interface to Central Database

Known

Custom reports

Referral Reports

WebApp

Paper

Solution Plan

Phase I Phase II Phase III
Goal Test Mobile Data Collection Implement Digital MVP Add Features
Data Collection Google Forms Digital Option for MVP Additional Forms
Data Aggregation Google Docs Web App Additional Functionality
Reporting Google Docs? Page of Web App Web App Export

Implementation Considerations

  • Incomplete data
  • Digital and paper input options
  • Mobile device not always available
  • They already have an app... we would need to raise the bar
  • Wireless connection not always available
  • NARCAN form
  • Referrals
  • 80-150 forms / day, 5 days / week
    • ~215,500 records over 5years, assuming 5% growth
  • Form logic (some fields once true, can't go to false)

Team?

What are you excited to do?

Role Suggestions

  • Coordination
  • Publicity
  • UX
  • Engineering

Timeline?

What can we do in 2 months?

What could we do in 4 months?

How many people can help build?

Interested?

Let us know!

AHOPE

By evandana

AHOPE

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