Persona: Joanne is a middle-aged lady from Africa that has been greatly suffering from hip pain and has been enduring great pain while waiting for surgical treatment. Unfortunately, just as the date she was scheduled to receive treatment arrived, she was informed that she will have to continue enduring the pain as the hospital did not have the proper medical equipment to ensure her a safe and effective surgery. One necessary piece of medical equipment missing is the electrosurgical units that are used in surgery to control bleeding and rapidly direct tissue. Joanne is one of many in her community that has their surgical treatment pushed back.
Our project is a website called ConnectME that allows hospitals to make different connections resulting in saving lives. ConnectME is a short form for connecting medical equipment. As our application’s tagline goes by Saving Lives. Creating Connections. Our goal of this application is to improve the lives of many people in developing nations as hospitals connect with one another more and help each other out.
Inspiration
Many third world countries have hospitals and people to help the communities but they may be lacking medical equipment. So we thought that ConnectME would help solve that problem by connecting hospitals with each other, the ones in need, and the ones that have extra supplies on hand that could lend a hand to hospitals in need.
How We did it
Using Qoom, we used the languages CSS, HTML, and JavaScript, to build the web application that currently runs. Using these languages, we built the register and log in page, in which the hospitals will be able to create or log into their account which leads straight away to their portfolio which contains their contact information and where they will be able to specify what lacks or excesses of medical equipment.
Challenges we ran into
As we are both beginners and the languages CSS, HTML, and Javascript are fairly new to us, it was hard to debug the code, for example, when there was an extra property throwing our code off, it took us a fair amount of time to realize which property it was since we weren’t familiar with many of the properties used. Additionally, since our coding skills were limited, we were unable to create the chat function, a feed and search option to connect with other hospitals, and the automatic matching system which would recommend hospitals to each other based on their needs/abundances.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are proud of being successful at our first attempt of creating a functional web application with the sign-in and log-out capabilities. Additionally, we were both used to starting projects straight away from scratch and it was an accomplishment for us to effectively use and modify templates to match with our ideas. Getting a working website and being able to debug the problems we faced was also an accomplishment for us.
What we learned
We learned how to successfully implement forms that would not only collect input, but save the data so that the user could reuse the data inputted to later login. As we were both beginners, creating the website itself was a learning experience since we learned different ways to add fonts, split the screen, and add many different features.
Next steps
For ConnectMe’s next steps, if we had more time, first we would like to finish building the web application to fulfill our goals and allow hospitals to connect and chat with one as well as get matched based on different requirements such as location and the specific needs and abundances. Additionally, we would like to expand it to be able to be used on mobile devices and other electronics that hospitals might use so that they can easily connect with one another regardless of device.
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