Digital growth charts

In early February 2021, we hosted a webinar to share information on the RCPCH Digital Growth Charts API (application programming interface). This will support the drive to digitise healthcare and provide accurately calculated centiles for height, weight, head circumference and BMI. Catch up by watch...

When Dr Marcus Baw and colleagues set out to develop a new API for growth charts, they knew they'd have pick a technology with which to build a server. But which to choose? Here's why Python is the best programming language for this project.

Dr Marcus Baw has spent the last few months working with RCPCH on a project to deliver a Digital Growth Charts web service. It’s been a hugely interesting project to help digitise the complex clinical logic of growth chart use into code. He explains more in this blog.

Today we presented a webcast at Health Tech News on the College's award-winning digital growth assessment programme. We looked at the challenges of switching to growth charts in a digital form and the complex maths behind these charts - and then shared our recently developed application programme in...

RCPCH has won this award from Health Tech News for our electronic growth charts. So, why is this a big deal? Dr Simon Chapman, Consultant Paediatrician at King’s College Hospital, who's involved in this project, explains.

We look ahead to plans for digital growth charts, which will be available to parents and carers in 2021.