Asclepius

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  All Pages of Asclepius

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  Landing Screen

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  English Registration

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  Chinese Registration

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  All Clinical Trials (Per State)

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  Booking a Doctor

Inspiration

We were inspired by a pair of stories, one of a young girl from the neighboring city of Los Gatos and another of a 6-month-old infant from rural Southern China. The first child received several cancer treatments, but none were able to save her from an opportunistic infection after chemo. The second was a more heartening story, where her father wrote a letter to a top US doctor at Johns Hopkins, who, in a stroke of genuine human kindness, flew to China and raised enough funding to perform open surgery, saving the young infant's life. Yet, both of these are just two individual cases in the pool of millions who go unnoticed, which prompted us to develop a platform to connect patients and doctors.

What it does

Asclepius is a mobile platform created to link patients to doctors and clinical trial leaders. Our application solves two major problems: first, patients in less-developed areas of the world cannot receive medication due to it being unavailable or financially inaccessible, and second, clinical trials in the US lose over 45% of the pharmaceutical budget allotted as government aid due to a lack of volunteers and trial members. After a short registration survey, patients can gain access to a wide range of medical trials in their region and find experimental medicine tailored expressly for their specified cancer and stage. It also provides a list of local surgeons, listed by rating. As a doctor, you can put out your trial for specific stages of specific cancers, or just the general population, and this trial will find its way into the trials bar for those patients.

How we built it

We built a prototype of our app on Uizard, a platform for visualizing your mobile app and mapping out where each page leads.

Challenges we ran into

As both Dale and I are very passionate about this topic, we first began with a very lofty idea encompassing many facets of the medical system's problems, but we had to shorten it down to solving this specific but fundamental issue. In addition, mapping the app was quite exhausting and preparing our pitch took several hours.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud to have created a very functional and robust online platform to host a solution to one of the US healthcare system's glaring problems.

What we learned

We learned some very interesting things about the cancer research pipeline, its strengths and its shortcomings. In technical terms, we also learned how to map together a mobile app and design its UI, which requires some degree of empathy to think from the user's perspective, what they want to receive and what they are willing to go through.

What's next for Asclepius

We would like to expand our prototype, currently based in California, to the US and eventually onto the international stage.

Built With

• google-slides
• uizard