Inspiration
Long wait lines and short available time slots for Covid19 testing and healthcare during the pandemic along with the increasing shortage of healthcare staff inspired us to provide a solution that would mediate some of those issues.
What it does
FastCare is a website that provides users information on estimated wait time and availability for testing sites and walk-in/urgent care closest to them.
How we built it
We first used Figma to brainstorm ideas and generate problems found under the categories of the Downtown track and provide technical solutions that seem feasible and viable. Then we created wireframes to outline what the website was going to look like before using Javascript, Html, and CSS for the frontend and Javascript and Node.js for the backend to build the website with the testing sites and walk-in/urgent care information as our database.
Challenges we ran into
We estimated the amount of time and effort needed to put our idea through and with a few of us unfamiliar with the tech stack, a majority of the time was learning and searching for the information to help us build something cool. The other challenge was finding a way to parallelize the work such that everyone was working on something at the same time.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We worked as a team generating ideas and collaborating to created a detailed wireframe for the webpage and a working frontend and backend.
What we learned
We learned to work as a team collaborating with different backgrounds and majors and seeing other perspectives on ideas and implementations. Some of us were first timers on building a website from scratch with a working frontend and backend so we learned a lot about the tech stack we were using in this project.
What's next for FastCare
FastCare can easily be expanded from just Covid testing site and walk-in/urgent care and can further expand to cover more health institutions that also have the same issue with wait times and availability.
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