BearCare

Landing page
Select insurance provider
Visually locate your own location
See nearest qualifying hospital locations near you

Inspiration

Our team was inspired to create this project because of the struggles we faced trying to find what hospitals qualify with a specific insurance provider. Medical insurance is confusing. Finding the right hospital is even harder. With BearCare, we aim to simplify the process when you're in an emergency in just a click of a button.

What it does

BearCare allows users to select the insurance provider that they use. Once selected, they will be redirected to a map page where they can view hospitals for that corresponding insurance provider nearest to them.

How we built it

For the frontend, we used React with a Next.js framework to build out our web application. We used Tailwind CSS for styling and JavaScript to map the data of the different health providers into buttons on the home page. We added a Google Maps API so that the user can see the hospitals for their insurance provider on a map based on their current location. We used Python and the Pandas library to extract data from a .csv file containing hospital location data and put that onto the map.

Challenges we ran into

The main challenge we ran into was how to integrate the button click from the frontend to display the correct hospital locations on the Google Map. We were able to get the button click to route to the map page. However, we had some difficulties extracting the longitudes and latitudes corresponding to hospital locations for that provider to show up on the map.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are most proud of getting our Google Maps API to successfully display on our website! We also are proud of being able to gather data on hospital information that corresponds to a specific provider since this is really hard to find in one place.

What we learned

We learned how to incorporate a Google Maps API into our website and display the current location of the user. We also learned how to use Pandas to parse through a large data file and extract the information we need for the Maps API. Additionally, we learned how to take advantage of different styling features to build a user interface that is simple to navigate.

What's next for BearCare

Next, we want to expand the number of insurance providers our website supports to be nation wide. We also want users to be able to enter their prescription information so they can find the best locations to receive medication without worrying about copays and other unnecessary fees.