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detailed analysis
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offer for further assistance from a professional
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Inspiration
Sadly it's all too common to see up-charging in the medical industry. A simple check-up is hundreds of dollars more than it is and people can barely afford their medical bills. We aim to help out these individuals by providing an outlook and price comparison on national medical costs.
What it does
This application uses CV and HLT to scan a document and parse a medical procedure and cost on a verity of medical document formats. Once captured, our backend algorithm finds the national average cost of this procedure. Then, financial summary data is returned to the user to give them a glace of costs. The application also suggests nearby attorneys to dispute these costs.
How we built it
Most of the application is built with a React frontend and Flask backend. The frontend is responsible for minor calculations and serving the user with a webpage, while Flask is used for routing, middleware, and heavy computations.
Challenges we ran into
The biggest hurdle during this project was parsing through unstandardized files. Creating unique regex patterns and making use of existing tools was necessary to having a system that registers multiple format types.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are proud of the work we were able to achieve. With only two people, we managed to create a working product that excites us.
What we learned
One of our biggest lessons was to not get bogged down with the details. From time to time, we would notice that we're spending multiple hours on a single issue. Instead, we learned that in these situations we should pivot our actions into something more useful.
What's next for CareCompare
As mentioned earlier, we would like to make the product more accessible to different types of medical billing documents. This includes documents without medical codes, hand-written documents, and more.
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