We’re very excited to have just helped the International Women’s Health Coalition launch their Young Visionaries campaign! Young Visionaries is a contest designed to help youth who are inspired by human rights and women’s health share their visions for change, and win grants to continue their work. The general public can vote for their favorite visionaries, with final awards decided by IWHC’s panel of guest judges.

Young Visionaries is built on top of Akimbo, the WordPress-powered main IWHC blog. The nomination form allows youth to describe their vision, upload a photo, embed a video, and link to their web site or online profile. We’re using the herculean TDO Mini Forms plugin to provide a usable interface for submission of the nomination form, the Vote It Up plugin for the voting, the Vipers Video Quicktags plugin for handling of the videos, and the Cycle Lite jQuery plugin for the front page slideshow.

On the front end, the application ties in to the impressive Thesis theme already used by Akimbo, functioning essentially as a sub-theme for that section of the site. We used Thesis’ extensive customization and hook structure for most of the Young Visionaries sub-theme, though we did have to modify a couple of core Thesis files to facilitate the sub-theme. Tying it all together is our own custom logic and “glue code”, and theme files specific to Young Visionaries.

A diverse group of Young Visionaries have already been nominated! Have a look and vote for your favorite, or maybe even encourage someone you know to nominate his/herself.

Check out the IWHC Young Visionaries web application on Akimbo!

We built a web site for the Voluntary Universal Healthcare Identifier project (VUHID; pronounced “view-hid”) a year and a half ago. Since then, Global Patient Identifiers, Inc (GPII) was formed as a parent company for VUHID.

Working with Bad Feather, we created a new identity and logo for GPII, updated the VUHID logo for visual consistency, and reworked the web site to be the combined home for both GPII and VUHID. See the new GPII identity, and the latest on the VUHID project, at gpii.info.

Through VUHID, GPII hopes to improve healthcare through a slew of benefits to all the related stakeholders, while taking privacy concerns very seriously.

Keep up the good work, GPII!

We’re proud to be working with a private group that’s developing a Voluntary Universal Healthcare Identifier (VUHID) system in the U.S. (As in, get knocked out while cycling in Washington, and have the doctor be able to easily access your medical history from your primary physician in New York!)

We’ve been working on the VUHID logo and branding, and just launched an initial, “brochure”-style site at vuhid.org. We’ll be helping with further web presentation and documentation efforts as the project evolves.

Check out the site and read more about the VUHID system at vuhid.org.