HealthTools.API

Providing actionable health information.

The HealthTools API is a free to access, open, and structured service for newsrooms, civic organizations, and governments to access health information.

This API provides a simple wrapper around Elasticsearch data being made available through the HealthTools Scraper and as a cached proxy for websites unable to be reliably scraped such as Kenya's nursing council website.

Through the API you can access data that we've scraped from:

1. Doctors: http://medicalboard.co.ke/online-services/retention/
2. Foreign Doctors: http://medicalboard.co.ke/online-services/foreign-doctors-license-register
3. Clinical Officers: http://clinicalofficerscouncil.org/online-services/retention/
4. Health Facilities: http://kmhfl.health.go.ke
5. NHIF accredited outpatient facilities for civil servants: http://www.nhif.or.ke/healthinsurance/medicalFacilities
6. NHIF accredited inpatient facilities: http://www.nhif.or.ke/healthinsurance/inpatientServices
7. NHIF accredited outpatient facilities: http://www.nhif.or.ke/healthinsurance/outpatientServices

Usage

Specification for the API are:

URL Endpoint	HTTP Methods	Functionality	Parameters
/search/doctors	GET	Search a doctor by the name	q=[name]
/search/nurses	GET	Search a nurse by the name	q=[name]
/search/clinical-officers	GET	Search a clinical officer by the name	q=[name]
/search/health-facilities	GET	Search a health facility by the name	q=[name]
/search/nhif-outpatient	GET	Search a NHIF accredited outpatient facility by the name	q=[name]
/search/nhif-outpatient-cs	GET	Search a NHIF accredited outpatient facility for civil servants	q=[name]
/search/nhif-inpatient	GET	Search a NHIF accredited inpatient facility by the name	q=[name]
/search	GET	Search a query that contains a keyword Eg. HF Kitale	q=[query]
/sms	GET	Search a query received from sms Eg. Dr Jane	q=[phoneNumber, message]
/sms/[adapter]	GET	Search a query received from sms using the specified adapter Eg. mtech	q=[query]

Requirments

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Development

To get started with developing on HealthTools.API, do the following:

git clone https://github.com/CodeForAfricaLabs/HealthTools.API.git`
cd HealthTools.API
touch .env
docker-compose build web
docker-compose up web

# Load latest data
docker-compose exec web flask htools loaddata

Reset Index

To reset the elasticsearch index, run:

docker-compose exec web flask htools resetindex

Tests

Use nosetests to run tests (with stdout) like so:

$ nosetests --nocapture
$ nosetests healthtools/tests
$ nosetests healthtools/tests/doctor.py
$ nosetests healthtools/tests/nurse.py
$ nosetests healthtools/tests/clinical_officer.py
$ nosetests healthtools/tests/health_facilities.py
$ nosetests healthtools/tests/nhif_inpatient.py
$ nosetests healthtools/tests/nhif_outpatient.py
$ nosetests healthtools/tests/nhif_outpatient_cs.py

Wit.ai

Wit.ai is a simple natural language processing API that helps developers turn speech and text into actionable data. In healthtools.API, we use it to distinguish the doc_type and the query param from the parameters being sent to the API. For example: dr mary

{
    "msg_id": "0csXmLxhRzgowQFJI",
    "_text": "dr mary",
    "entities": {
        "doctors": [
            {
                "confidence": 0.96676127393653,
                "value": "dr",
                "type": "value"
            }
        ],
        "query": [
            {
                "suggested": true,
                "confidence": 0.99538476989175,
                "value": "mary",
                "type": "value"
            }
        ]
    }
}

The doc_type has been identified as doctors and mary has been identified as query param. To configure wit.ai:

• Sign up on wit.ai website with either your github or facebook account
• Create an app with the name you prefer to use.
• Detect your first entities:

Improve the detection

This will be done by continuously training your app to identify keyword or sentences. Input a message and check its prediction, if wrong, correct it if right validate it.

Configure Server Access Token in the ENV.

The token can be found from the settings tab, API details segment.

To set it in the ENV, run export WIT_ACCESS_TOKEN='Token'

The following endpoint is used to run wit.ai on healthtools.API

URL Endpoint	HTTP Method	Functionality	Parameter
/search/wit	GET	Search Query	q=[query]

Contributing

If you'd like to contribute to HealthTools.API, check out the CONTRIBUTING.md file on how to get started.

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License

MIT License

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