DailyDose

Inspiration

Have you ever dealt with the pain of having to juggle your four daily vitamin supplements and three prescription medicines, all with different intake frequencies and mealtime requirements?

That was me (the unc of the group) , and likely most elders. With DailyDose, we’re here to make your life easier for you. It’s here so you don’t overdose.

What it does

When taking different medications, negative drug-to-drug, drug-to-vitamin, and drug-to-body interactions are a serious risk. The more medications you’re taking, the higher the chance of adverse side effects.

DailyDose helps mitigate that risk by taking into account your health parameters and dietary concerns, as well as all of your required supplements, to create a personalized schedule that minimizes the chance of overdosing, missed doses, and adverse drug combinations.

How we built it

DailyDose’s webpage runs on html and css for the front end. The dataset comes from Kaggle, which was manually sourced from FDA/Health Canada drug labels. The dataset is then parsed and stored as JSON. Javascript is used to compare and parse to match the drug-drug interactions depending on user input to our dataset. Using our custom algorithm, we determine when the best time is to take each medication and produce the results on the easy-to-read color-coded schedule viewer.

Challenges we ran into

This was our first time working in a team to complete an entire project under a timed setting, as well as the first time using the tools and languages involved with this project for some of us, such as Git and Javascript.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We made a proper website for our first ever hackathon!!! (All of us are in our first ever hackathon)

What we learned

We learned to work as a group by using our diverse backgrounds to our strengths. Each person brought their knowledge to the table since we met at the hackathon for the first time!

What's next for DailyDose

DailyDose plans to migrate to a mobile app to take advantage of real-time push notifications. With a mobile app, we can also include a tracking feature. We also plan to keep our live dataset updated to stay aligned with current drug interaction safety guidelines.