Inspiration
Despite the abundance of health-related information on the internet, individuals find it difficult to find trustworthy information and advice that pertains to their health concerns. Many existing health forums do not allow individuals to freely express their concerns, nor do they give people the opportunity to share their own experiences with others.
What it does
Technically, HealthFocus is a website that hosts forums that are organized by "most recent" as well as categories in which posts are grouped into. It also enables them to make informed medical decisions after reading about other people's medical experiences.
How we built it
Using VisualStudioCode as our text editor, we also downloaded Flask in order to code with Python for our backend. Collaboration was possible with GitHub Desktop.
Challenges we ran into
HTML was a new language that two of the three members on the team was unfamiliar with. Adding functionality was difficult.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Incorporating multiple templates together and learning to understand which part of the code corresponds to which component despite our lack of experience under an extremely short time span.
What we learned
We've learned how to collaborate using GitHub and were able to make a good-looking website.
What's next for HealthFocus
We hope to add in a functionality that allows only certified doctors to be verified for their expertise and prevents them from being able to answer posts that do not fall under their expertise.
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