E-Med

Inspiration / Problem

In the past years, there has been a big increase in the number of telemedicine platforms all around the globe, but do all of them target the right market that has been impacted by the crisis? A major problem that we identified with the existing telemedicine platforms is the fact that they don't reach the people who need them the most. People are still flocking to the hospital/doctors for minor issues, prescriptions, or certificates. This fact implies that all of them will be standing in line, waiting, and risking their health while trying to improve it. Also, most of the Telemedicine Applications are very basic, offering a simple contact to a doctor or they are just an alternative to make an appointment at a doctor for non-critical issues. Imagine the usefulness of such an Application combined with a strong and precise Artificial Intelligence algorithm on top of it, that can preliminary sort and match a patient with a doctor, using all the available data provided via technology.

The Solution

Our solution brings to the table a new approach in the Telemedicine world.

E-Med is a Telemedicine Platform, that we plan to integrate into the public healthcare system, and we want to find ways to adapt it to the regulations of countries in the EU and beyond. We also spiced it up with some of the coolest tech-innovations of this decade, like AI, IoMT and Chatbots. All those ingredients, thrown in a cauldron and mixed perfectly together, will generate, from our point of view, one of the greatest Telemedicine Platform stew!

Weekend Hacking

We expect our platform to have lots of patients and not enough medics to help everyone (just like it is now in a lot of hospitals). The current consultation process can be improved, both in existing telemedicine platforms and in face to face meetings. During this hackathon, we worked a lot on coming up with a much more efficient consultation process. We also focused on research on how we can use technology to further minimize the time spent per patient without causing mistakes.

One of these is the integration of IoMT (IoT Medical, smartphone sensors, wearables, etc.) in order to collect useful data as quickly as possible.

Another one is implementing an AI solution to sort the relevant information required to make a consultation and match the patient with the right doctor.

Finally, adding a chatbot that can do a preliminary anamnesis and try to teach it how to do a full one (which must be verified by a doctor).

Impact

One of the biggest impacts our solution has on the crisis is the fact that everybody can stay home while they are being treated for minor issues. Our platform aims to integrate with the public health insurance institutions in order to bring the service in front of as many people as possible, regardless of their financial status. In this context, we even pushed it a step forward, into simplifying the whole process and saving some of the doctors' precious time with the integration of an efficient consultation process, supported by cutting edge technology. The design of the platform has to be as simple and straight forward as possible, so that even non-techy people (eg the elderly) will find it attractive and easy to use, them being one of the focus groups of this Application.

What we need to make this project a success

support from the public sector
a reasonable amount of time
more colleagues with skills in these fields: legal, UI, UX, medical

Post-crisis value

The main asset of E-Med is that the Platform is very useful even after the crisis.

With the implementation of AI, while time flies, our patient-doctor matching process and the chatbot will improve, adapt, overcome– evolve. We would gladly think that our Platform is like wine: it gets better with time. The crisis has proven to us, that digitalization will be a priority in the whole EU and we will not allow digitalization to be a double-edged sword for our public healthcare system, but a well-built watch, that can “clock” the issues precisely, quick and safe!