Hacknight #244

Ontario’s COVID-19 Self-Assessment Tool

with Spencer Daniels

Recording

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What does product development look like when responding to the shifting landscape of a pandemic? Ontario’s COVID-19 Self-Assessment Tool sprung up from code shared by Alberta Health Services and has shifted and twisted through many iterations in the two months since. Learn how we balanced usability with syndromic surveillance, plain language with medical precision and how user feedback loops and open source software remain at the heart of our work. https://covid-19.ontario.ca/self-assessment/

Speakers

Spencer Daniels

Spencer Daniels is a Senior Product Manager with the Ontario Digital Service. Some of his other recent work includes overhauling Ontario’s Environmental Registry and becoming a dad (again). He believes that software, like people, is always a work in progress.

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Ontario’s COVID-19 Self-Assessment Tool

What does product development look like when responding to the shifting landscape of a pandemic? Ontario’s COVID-19 Self-Assessment Tool sprung up from code shared by Alberta Health Services and has shifted and twisted through many iterations in the two months since. Learn how we balanced usability with syndromic surveillance, plain language with medical precision and how user feedback loops and open source software remain at the heart of our work. https://covid-19.ontario.ca/self-assessment/

Spencer Daniels Bio

Spencer Daniels is a Senior Product Manager with the Ontario Digital Service. Some of his other recent work includes overhauling Ontario’s Environmental Registry and becoming a dad (again). He believes that software, like people, is always a work in progress.

Tweet him @spncrd Follow the Ontario Digital Service at https://Medium.com/OntarioDigital

https://medium.com/ontariodigital/building-the-new-environmental-registry-of-ontario-e88145aae3a

https://www.ontario.ca/page/ontario-digital-service