Our inspiration for this project began from a personal reality of one of our team members who themselves have a neurological bladder. Neurological bladder is a condition where nerves that control the bladder are damaged. In our research, we learned that these patients with neurological bladder need catheters to survive, because for them it's not only a medical supply. It is their basic need for everyday living. These patients having a day without having access to these catheters leads to Urinary Tract Infections (UTI), kidney failure, and even death. It is so important to address the issue of these patients always having catheters supplied to their home. So we created a CathEx app that addresses the urgency of the patient needing catheters. All of this inspired us to create the CathEx, where patients never have to worry about having UTI, kidney failure or death due to the lack of catheter supply.
We built CodeEx using three tier architecture, where we had the presentation tier about ‘Urgency Monitoring Hub’, application tier about ‘Protection and Logistics Brain, and Database tier that involved information about patient, grant, and coloplast compact set catheters.One of the challenges we experienced as a group was figuring out how to implement the idea about our project into an app using Claude Code. It was our first time using Claude Code, functionality was being dropped, which was one of the biggest changes about Claude code, where we were dropping previously established program functionality and then we were having to reimplement it.
We are proud of all the learning we have done throughout this project, because we came into the competition as beginner-intermediate level coders. We learned problem solving skills that we built as a team, as well as learned how to work as a team using github. Now, the next part of CathEx is lobbying for funding.
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