Inspiration

We live in a globalized interconnected world. More than half of the adult population uses prescription medication yet the ability to access prescriptions, refills, or medical records remains complex. In addition to language barriers, legal and medical restrictions, and global pandemics, travelers and medical professionals are seeking a secure and reliable method to exchange this vital information and provide much-needed services and care.

What it does

With the Bitnation ePassport your complete medical record including prescription medication is safely and securely stored on your device. The data is only shared with individuals that you trust using a unique QR code. Approved medical professionals will be able to receive and read your medical information in the language of their choice along with local references. Bitnation ePassport provides a system to prevent fraud and validates international signatures of doctors on the files by using blockchain technology.

For this Hackathon Bitnation ePassport will address the First Challenge by demonstrating one feature of the ePassport: An American traveler receives a prescription in Romania. The traveler receives the prescription in English and saves the prescription to his ePassport. The medication prescribed is easily available in the USA. While traveling the traveler misplaces his medication and he needs to refill the prescription at a Brazilian Pharmacy. With ePassport the Brazilian Pharmacy is able to scan the prescription. ePassport translates the prescription to Portuguese and also provides the Pharmacist with the name of the local equivalent of the medication.

How we built it

Our ePassport is a mobile app for both Android and iOS built with web-development technologies, this allows for truly cross-platform development. We use QR scanning technology for transmitting files between devices using military-grade encryption (AES-256). The data for the prescriptions are automatically loaded into the language of the user's device.

We used the Pusher API to send instant notification between users and request permission to access a file. We also used blockchain technology to validate the data and make it tamper-proof thus guaranteeing that the prescription has not been hacked or altered in any way.

Challenges we ran into

We used many different technologies and making them all work together brought many bugs and conflicts in the code, however, we managed to overcome them.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

During this hackathon, we managed to create the app on time even though it took a huge coding effort to assemble all the pieces. Deploying one full operational app from scratch is quite challenging in 3 days. Our team also came up with an amazing UI. Finally, we manage to learn how to use PlayPlay and create our presentation video.

What we learned

We have had great mentoring not just with the mentors assigned to us but also with many others that we were lucky to connect to. In this period we realized that the market offers a lot more opportunities than we first realized, especially for business travel, which is a market we had little knowledge of.