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Main notification avenue that will link to either recent labs or radiology without showing patient data
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Main screen with access to patients that shows room number, name, age, gender, and chief complaint.
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Lab results
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Lab results expanded
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Radiology results
Inspiration
One of our group members has had the opportunity to work with various electronic health record systems (EHRs) over the past 5 years as both a scribe and medical student. She, like many others, is appalled at how inefficient and clunky these systems are. We care to innovate in many areas of healthcare, yet the record keeping software doctors use to care for their patients manages to be the least innovative solution yet. Simple tasks such as waiting for lab results require several sessions of clicking repeatedly through cluttered screens to get to pertinent information. All of this time wasted leaves patients feeling uncared for and medical staff feeling rushed and unproductive. We can do better.
What it does
Doc Alert takes updates from EHRs such as Epic through services like Redox to notify those who are involved in patient care of important test results in real time. Get notifications as lab results are returned. Check values of interest and radiology results without having to navigate through the gigantic mess of a health record system.
A user can sign up for notifications, verify their access, get notified about results in real time with no PII shown on the alert, access newest records with pertinent information, and asses values easily while on the go.
The software gets result events from Redox's API, processes the patient result data, pushes notifications out to subscribed users on mobile and in browser, and allows the results to be viewed in an easily digestible format.
How we built it
OpenSignal for push notifications on mobile and in browser
Material Design Lite for the UI
OpenSignal for push notifications on mobile and in browser
Redox's API for interacting with EHRs (https://www.redoxengine.com/)
Node/Express for handling data and communicating with Redox and OpenSignal APIs
Challenges we ran into
Interfacing with Redox's API
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Our team has a diverse background of software engineers, medical students, and art students. Putting these views and experiences together, we were able to come up with a solution to a problem that most people don't know exists and that helps both physicians and patients. This was also a first hackathon for all but one of our group members.
What we learned
For the engineers: Service workers and real time notifications and interfacing with an electronic health record systems
For the med students: Devising mockups and user friendly interfaces and software development
What's next for Doc Alert
Utilizing Redox to its full potential, however we would ideally like to see this idea implemented within both established and upcoming electronic health record systems without the need for a third party API.
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