Curequest: A Virtual Medical Hospital

🩺 Inspiration

Access to timely medical care is a persistent challenge, especially during emergencies and in rural or underserved regions. We were inspired to build Curequest to bridge this gap by integrating real-time live location tracking, enabling faster emergency response, efficient mobile clinic dispatch, and easy discovery of nearby health facilities.

💡 What it does

Curequest provides:

• Live location tracking with high accuracy for patients and healthcare providers.
• Emergency location sharing, broadcasting user location to family or services in real time.
• Nearby facilities discovery, helping users find hospitals, clinics, or pharmacies within a customizable radius.
• Mobile clinic dispatch, allowing clinics to locate patients for home visits or outreach programs.
• Location history logging for medical follow-up and safety records.

🛠️ How we built it

We built Curequest using:

• React Native for cross-platform mobile development.
• TypeScript for strong typing and maintainability.
• Expo Location API (and browser Geolocation API for web) for real-time tracking.
• MapView and Geocoding services for interactive maps and reverse geocoding.
• Custom components like LocationPermissionModal, LiveLocationTracker, and NearbyFacilitiesMap to modularize features.
• Node.js backend endpoints for emergency broadcasting and facility data management (where applicable).

⚠️ Challenges we ran into

• Handling location permission issues across Android, iOS, and web consistently.
• Optimizing battery consumption while maintaining real-time accuracy.
• Ensuring data privacy and security compliance, especially during emergency broadcasts.
• Managing mocked services vs. live APIs during development and testing phases.

🏆 Accomplishments that we're proud of

• Successfully integrated comprehensive live location features with minimal user friction.
• Built a privacy-focused permission modal with multilingual support for broader accessibility.
• Enabled emergency live location sharing, which can save lives during critical health events.
• Created a scalable and modular architecture for future healthcare feature expansions.

📚 What we learned

• The critical role of clear user consent flows in handling sensitive data like location.
• Advanced techniques for optimizing geolocation performance while preserving device battery.
• Importance of designing for offline or low-signal scenarios in medical applications.

🚀 What's next for Curequest: A Virtual Medical Hospital

• Implement geofencing to trigger automatic alerts when users enter/leave designated safe zones.
• Integrate ambulance tracking and ETA sharing within the emergency module.
• Develop an AI-powered symptom checker to assist users before consulting doctors.
• Expand to include wearable integration for vitals-based emergency detection.
• Collaborate with health ministries to scale mobile clinic dispatch programs nationwide.

Curequest is more than an app – it is a step towards equitable, accessible, and rapid healthcare for all.

Built With

• azure
• css
• facility-data-management)-**firebase-realtime-database**-(optional-module)-?-for-live-emergency-location-updates-**tailwind-css**-(for-web-components-styling
• html5
• if-used)-**git-&-github**-?-for-version-control-and-collaboration-**vs-code**-?-as-the-primary-development-environment-let-me-know-if-you-used-**aws
• javascript
• location-api.com
• maps
• netify
• node.js
• python
• react
• superbase
• typescript