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- EIN 61-1474898
- 6081 Meridian Ave Ste 70 # 300 San Jose CA 95120-2752 USA
- http://www.itriage.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Health, Health Support, Public & Societal Benefit, Public Health
Mission: iTriage.org aims to help over 40 million underprivileged Americans who suffer from financial constraints, lack of language proficiency, educational and cultural backgrounds, geographic locations, and varied individual needs that are unmet in current technologies and services. Because information technologies in general have not been designed or utilized to benefit the underprivileged, the organization's services have scientific merits by analyzing and sharing valuable insights to how future technologies can be designed and applied to overcome issues and to serve the underprivleged. iTriage formulates the potential scientific merits in a "research-in-practice" approach, allowing concurrent public services and scientific research.
Programs: iTriage.org helps medically uninsured and those with low health literacy skills to obtain healthcare information (e.g. symptom explanations, contact information for nearby community triage nurses, links to available services) in easily understandable language in English and Spanish via toll-free telephone numbers in order for them to be able to make better judgments regarding health self-management, without necessitating money, or special skills and equipment in either computers or medicine. iTriage also runs research projects to develop and evaluate information triage, a.k.a. itriage, technologies for underprivileged.