I need help
Describe a non-identifying need in ordinary language. The demonstration surfaces relevant assistive-technology, navigation, research, and support pathways.
Unshaken Voice Productions · Public demonstration
One doorway into Pittsburgh’s disability, health, research, and assistive-tech network.
Pittsburgh Health Connect is a data-minimized coordination demonstration built around a simple premise: people should not have to understand a fragmented system before they can ask for help. The public experience is designed not to request protected health information.
Public-use boundary: do not enter diagnoses, medical histories, medical record numbers, insurance/member IDs, exact birth dates, or other protected health information. The optional network signup collects limited contact information plus broad nonclinical resource/capability categories and service geography only. Public-source inclusion does not imply partnership or endorsement.
PHI-freeNo account, patient chart, or clinical record required
Consent-gatedAutomatic introductions require verified email ownership and opt-in from both parties; qualifying nonautomatic matches may be queued for human review
Source-linkedEvery public resource record links back to its source
Pittsburgh-firstDesigned around Pittsburgh’s health, disability, research, and resource ecosystem
The system problem
Resources exist. The path between them is the missing product.
The system treats the problem as a broken chain rather than a shortage of isolated programs. A need can require service discovery, evidence, eligibility, funding, acquisition, implementation, and follow-up across multiple institutions.
Need→Discovery→Evidence→Eligibility→Funding→Access→Follow-up
Pittsburgh-originated
Born from Pittsburgh conversations about a disconnected system.
Across Pittsburgh conversations about health, disability, accessibility, research, technology, and community support, the same structural problem keeps surfacing: the region has strong people, institutions, research, technology, and public resources, but the path between them is often fragmented. Pittsburgh Health Connect is a working response to that coordination gap.
Keep the origin local. Make the model useful everywhere.
The first goal is not to export a generic platform into Pittsburgh. It is to let Pittsburgh's disability community, assistive-technology professionals, researchers, health organizations, public-resource navigators, founders, and funders shape the first working network. If the model later travels, Pittsburgh remains the place where the connective architecture was first assembled and tested.
Innovation ecosystemStartup, research, capital, commercialization, and public-support conversations exposed the same missing connective tissue.
Health & accessibilityAssistive-tech and disability discussions added the human side: awareness, evidence, funding, acquisition, accessibility, and follow-through.
Working responseUVP turned those recurring needs into a live Pittsburgh-first public demonstration designed for continued professional and community review.
Three starting points
Start with what you need—not with the organization chart.
I need evidence or a partner
Explore public research, rehabilitation engineering, community co-design, demonstration, and statewide assistive-technology infrastructure.
I need a pathway to impact
Identify public navigation systems, disability-community connectors, and evidence partners that can help a pilot reach real people through verified consent, transparent matching, and human review where required.
Interactive matcher
Describe the need. The demonstration finds plausible public pathways.
What are you trying to accomplish?
This browser-only demo does not submit the text to a server. Avoid PHI anyway.
Suggested pathways
Start with a plain-language need.The matcher will explain why each public resource may be relevant.
Participation + matching network
Ask for something. Offer something. Let the system find the bridge.
This next layer turns the demonstration into a two-sided Pittsburgh network. People and families can request nonclinical resources or connections. Researchers, providers, builders, funders, navigators, community organizations, and ecosystem connectors can describe what they can offer. Matching is explainable, consent-gated, and designed to preserve human authority.
01JoinSubmit only general needs or capabilities—never medical records or PHI.
02MatchControlled categories, service geography, and access modes produce a transparent score.
03ConsentAutomatic direct introductions happen only when both verified parties opted into them; research-participant matches always require human review.
04ConnectOther plausible matches are queued for human review instead of being silently acted on.
Join the matching network
Keep this nonclinical. Choose only broad resource or capability categories and service geography. The public form intentionally has no medical-history or case-narrative field. Do not enter a diagnosis, medical history, medical-record number, insurance/member ID, Social Security number, date of birth, or clinical notes.
Live public data layer
Real regional signals, retrieved from public systems.
This layer is read-only and PHI-free. It brings public demographic context, Medicare-registered Pittsburgh hospitals, Pittsburgh-area clinical studies, federally funded Pittsburgh research, and current federal funding opportunities into the same coordination view. Each record keeps a direct source path.
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2024 ACS disability characteristics.
Medicare-registered hospitals returned for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Pittsburgh-location study records surfaced by the live API.
Pittsburgh active research matched to disability, rehabilitation, mobility, assistive technology, or accessibility.
Posted or forecasted federal opportunities matched to assistive technology, disability, or rehabilitation.
Medicare-registered Pittsburgh hospitals
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Pittsburgh-area clinical studies
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Pittsburgh research & funding signals
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Current funding opportunities
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Public data can be incomplete, delayed, or administrative rather than service-availability data. CMS hospital registration does not establish current capacity, accessibility, payer acceptance, or suitability. ClinicalTrials.gov entries do not establish eligibility. NIH awards do not imply partnership. Grants.gov opportunities require independent eligibility review. Census figures are aggregate statistics and are never used to infer disability status about an individual.
Explore the network · PHI-free public data
See how Pittsburgh’s public health and resource signals connect.
After the public data layer above, this interactive graph provides a spatial view of the same source-backed information: resource categories, CMS hospital records, ClinicalTrials.gov studies, NIH RePORTER projects, Grants.gov opportunities, and aggregate Census context. It visualizes structure and source coverage without creating a hospital ranking, clinical recommendation, or partnership claim.
Drag to rotate the public-data field in three dimensions, drag vertically to change the viewing angle, scroll to zoom, isolate data layers, or explode the field to separate dense clusters. Hover or select towers to inspect their public source.
Source-backed resource network
Public resource records, shown for navigation—not affiliation.
Curated resource entries use neutral public labels while preserving direct source links. Some live government, hospital, study, or research records may identify institutions because that identity is part of the official source record. In every case, inclusion is data provenance only and does not mean client status, partnership, endorsement, co-design participation, or any other formal relationship with UVP.
Connected Pittsburgh systems
One regional connective architecture, different entry points.
Health Connect is being built as part of the same Pittsburgh-first connective model already explored across economic development, community-resource navigation, and human-directed problem solving. Each surface keeps its own scope and governance instead of collapsing every use case into one database or one score.
Professional and community review
Designed to improve through public, professional, and lived-experience feedback.
This demonstration is not presented as a finished answer. UVP welcomes structured review from disability-community members, healthcare and assistive-technology professionals, researchers, service navigators, funders, and other practitioners who can identify missing pathways, unnecessary burden, accessibility concerns, data that should never be collected, and outcomes worth tracking.