The Patient Centered Media Lab designs and ships real software — from AI-native research platforms to open-source R packages used across the field.
Beacon is an AI-native health risk assessment platform under active development in the lab — a next-generation approach to turning individual and neighborhood-level data into clear, actionable health risk guidance for patients and providers.
Kerkidos is an AI-native platform for place-based, mixed-methods research. It weaves together GPS tracks, visual elements, and transcribed interviews so that a community member's lived experience of a place becomes a mappable, codeable record — with researchers in control of every AI-assisted step. Kerkidos grew directly out of the lab's neighborhood fieldwork, including its go-along interview and community engagement studio methods.
Created with Nik Krieger, Jarrod Dalton, Cindy Wang and Adam Perzynski, sociome operationalizes social determinants of health data for researchers — pulling U.S. Census-derived indicators and computing neighborhood deprivation measures (including an implementation of the Area Deprivation Index) directly inside R, in tidyverse- and sf-compatible data frames. It underlies much of the lab's own neighborhood modeling work and is freely available for any researcher to use.
A companion R package providing a lightweight project-management workflow for data scientists and researchers, keeping analysis code, notes, and data organized together.
Dr. Perzynski serves as Chief Science and Strategy Officer of Global Health Metrics, LLC, which builds and operates scientifically validated health risk assessment products, several of which were prototyped directly in the Patient Centered Media Lab.
Global Health Metrics' core health risk assessment tool, introducing "risk age" and "target age" to help patients see the concrete health payoff of behavior change.
Software developed with the Cleveland Healthy Home Data Collaborative to power a citywide healthy-housing data system used to combat lead poisoning and asthma triggers — designed and implemented with resources from the Patient Centered Media Lab.
TritonX makes a wearable, non-invasive hydration monitor that continuously tracks body fluid status — invented by students in the Patient Centered Media Lab. It's now venture-backed and in a Phase 2 clinical trial, building on earlier NIH STTR-funded work evaluating its effectiveness for patients seen in the emergency department for dehydration.