Children who went to a clinic and then to the school nurse usually have a separate set of records at each location. These records are unavailable to the hospitals should the child need services in the emergency room. The intent of the project is not to centralize the record keeping but to allow different institutions to share and compare information. The secondary goal is to use the groups of medical data for clinical research. If for example one wanted to study the incidence of asthma in the region one could render a 3D map of the area with small buildings representing the different health care facilities.
Iconic figures dot the landscape depicting the population.
The color of each figure could denote the prevalence of asthma in that group. Information from other data sources can be overlaid to show the levels of particulate matter from nearby factories. By overlaying the pollution levels over the levels of asthma incidence it should be easy to see if there is a correlation between exposure and prevalence. They created a three dimensional index of their web site which allows one to fly though the structure of the meta data representing the site. This multidimensional map grows to show deeper structure at the command of the visitor.