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Healthcare D3.js UCSF Data Visualisation

Health Gorilla

A React web application deployed on Heroku and connected to UCSF, enabling healthcare providers to explore patient health data across clinical history, wearables and social determinants.

Context

Clinical teams at UCSF needed a way to see the whole patient — not just the latest visit, but a year of data spanning clinical events, wearable sensor readings and social determinants of health. Existing EHR interfaces surfaced data one record at a time. Heatlh Gorilla needed to surface patterns across time.

What I built

I built out the full-interface including routing, views, theming, data management, and interactive charts.

HumanGraph — the longitudinal multi-stream chart — The centrepiece of the dashboard. A custom D3.js chart showing a full year of patient data across four overlaid streams: clinical events, social determinants and wearable data. Features include smooth curve interpolation, animated year/week zoom transitions, custom bar midpoint markers, diamond tick indicators, hoverable concern indicators, and a full mouseOver/mouseOut tooltip system.

Florence Nightingale polar rose chart — Built with D3, load animations, hover tooltip.

Diagnosis Visualizer — cross-filtering timeline — A 12-month diagnosis code timeline with bidirectional cross-filtering between the timeline and a histogram on hover.

Patient Info sidebar — Key EHR sections showing medical history and computed patient analytics.

Provider and patient views — A provider view with a patient list table and summary cards with sparklines, and a patient view with a multiple tabs.

Accessibility — Replaced table-based layouts with CSS Grid to avoid ARIA conflicts. React Transition Group list animations and D3 transition animations throughout.

Outcome

A UCSF-connected healthcare dashboard with bespoke charts and a fluid, accessible interface deployed on Heroku.