RevolutionHealth Officially Launched!

Its been 3 months since we launched our preview site, and today I am proud to say we've launched the new and improved RevolutionHealth!

I look forward to our folks sharing some of the details behind our products in the near future.

Also, a big thank to the rails community. There is no way we could have done this without Rails, the community, and all the great plugins/blogs/articles out there.

www.revolutionhealth.com

Aside from a full redesign, we have some great new products such as:

KnowYourRisk - "Give us 10 minutes, we'll give you 10 years": A state-of-the-art assessment pioneered by BioSignia. In just 10 minutes, by confidentially entering basic health information, the KnowYourRisk(TM) proprietary program can calculate a user's risk of contracting one of the nine most common diseases – and can provide personalized information on actions to help reduce that risk and live longer.

Medicine Chest - A tool to find drugs and treatments, as well as rate and share your experience with others. This service is in its infancy, but our philosophy is that if millions of people participate, it will emerge as a useful tool for people as they consider their treatment options.

Revolution Pages - Now people can create and customize their own health pages, including their top-rated articles, tools and resources, as well as photos and personal stories. This sophisticated self-publishing capability encompasses Web 2.0's promise of creating customized health content: patients and families dealing with health issues can share the benefit of their experiences with others -- and learn from others, too. See some examples: Sneezing, Type II Diabetes, or Bad Knees.

These are along with many of the awesome products we launched in late January.

Thank you!

[PLUGIN RELEASE] - Browser Logger - Stop tailing your logs!

We got a little tired of tailing our logs all day--especially remotely. I threw together a plugin (with enhancements from Todd and Aaron) that allows you to retrieve the logs for your request on-demand.

Rubyforge project

From the README:

BrowserLogger
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Appends just this request's logs to the end of the response. It's a little more convenient than tailing a log, especially when you're not logged in. For now, it's 'always on.' Feel free to modify init.rb to incorporate whatever on/off switch you want.

You'll get all the database logs as well, complete with rudimentary color coding and JS filtering.

This will always gather ALL logging actions, regardless of configured log level--helpful when you're in prod mode and want to debug a request without changing the log level and bouncing.

Usage:

Install plugin:

./script/plugin install svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/browser-logger

Fire up your rails app, make a request with log! or logs! appended as a query param.

e.g.:

http://localhost/pets/show/1
http://localhost/pets/show/1?log!

As a footnote, this particular process hook is extremely useful for hooking very deeply for actions such as profiling, logging, response filtering, etc.

Welcome to the Revolution on Rails

Revolution Health Group is creating a health company where patients are put at the center of the health system, with more choices, more convenience, and more control over their health care.

It was only a few months ago that our organization decided to take the plunge into a mostly Rails architecture. We've just exited stealth startup mode, and we'd like to start becoming active members of the community. We aren't a traditional startup, and this is by no means a traditional rails application. We have a large team, many interconnected applications, and we've dealt with many of the issues small rails apps have been lucky enough to avoid.

We are discovering what we can say and what code we can release, but we realize the community has helped us get to where we are, and its about time to start giving back. A lot of people have been involved in making this portal a reality, and hopefully you'll hear from them all here.

Our passion is to end the rails enterprise argument.

RevolutionHealth.
Take a look.