ACCESS2Health Kiosks

2023 NACo Achievement Award Winner

Harris County, Texas, TX

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About the Program

Category: Health (Best in Category)

Year: 2023

Our Access2Health Kiosks are the newest piece of innovative technology we are deploying in Precinct 2 to expand access to quality healthcare. These health kiosks will take your pulse, blood pressure, weight, and oxygen level and can be used by residents in both Spanish and English. We have deployed 6 machines in Community Centers across Precinct 2 in the most socially vulnerable areas. These kiosks help us gear health opportunities to specific neighborhoods by compiling data driven reports enabling us to tailor our health services in high-need communities. Our health kiosks will save lives by providing any citizen, regardless of income, with the vital health information they need to live a longer and healthier life. These machines help us correct the structural disparities faced by low-income communities and have been used over 2,000 times within the first 10 months of their placement. They have already shown great success and revealed that many users have abnormal health indicators that otherwise would have gone undiagnosed.

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