Child growth assessment is important – whether detecting serious illness or helping to manage the obesity crisis - and it involves complex data and statistics.
A multi-disciplinary group of experts, from clinical paediatrics, nutrition, health informatics, statistics and programming, has now created the RCPCH Growth Charts API (application programming interface).
This enables developers of electronic patient records to build apps and interfaces that will give clinicians solid data to improve care, and parents online access to their child's growth records.
Award winning - We were proud to win 'Best Health Tech Solution in the Health Tech Awards 2020 for our digital growth charts - find out how this API is the building block of incredible future clinical interfaces
Gold standard - Working with the UK's top experts in growth monitoring, growth charts, centile and SDS calculation, and in child development, our API takes away the heavy lifting of calculating child growth parameters. Find out more about Royal Colleges 3.0: ‘Best practice as code’
Open source - For transparency, accuracy and maximum reuse, our API and associated libraries are 100% open source. We welcome code reviews, feedback, issues and pull requests. We're the first Royal College to have clinical code in its own GitHub organisation, so check us out on GitHub!
