Haemo

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Inspiration

“PMI (Indonesian Red Cross Society) is suffering from blood shortage”, Kompas.tv, March 31st, 2020.

“Type O blood shortage: Red Cross urgently needs donors”, redcrossblood.org, January 20th, 2020.

“Red Cross Warns of a ‘Staggering’ Drop in Blood Supplies”, The New York Times, June 2nd, 2020.

Red Cross around the world often suffers from blood shortage albeit being critical for saving human lives. Moreover, the coronavirus outbreak is worsening the condition globally. Donating blood has many benefits for our health (reduce harmful iron stores, preserve cardiovascular health, reduce the risk of cancer, etc.), yet the shortage is happening constantly. One of the most apparent reasons is that the issue lacks digital presence, resulting in the lack of awareness from the general public. The trend of digitalization has disruptively changed our way of living, but we have seen it ourselves how it simplifies life in ways our ancestors had never imagined. We believe it is time for us to decode the blood shortage issue with technology.

We make donating blood as easy as ordering food online.

What it does

Haemo

Our team decided to look deeper into the issue and find what the main factors of the causation are. We found these following results:

-Lack of exposure to the blood shortage issue is causing the lack of awareness from the general public.

-The bystander effect. It is not uncommon to see news, articles, or even social media posts asking for blood donations. However, because it is directed to everyone in general (not immediately directed to anyone), everyone thinks that it’s not necessary for them to help. They believe other people are going to offer help instead. This is the bystander effect, a social psychological theory that states that individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim when there are other people present.

-The procedure to donate blood is still traditional and easily accessible considering the digital era we live in.

** How Haemo helps to solve the problems: **

-We offer both all the information needed about blood donation in one platform and the convenience to do so.

-One of the most effective ways to minimize the bystander effect is to pick out specific people in the crowd to help, according to research. Based on this, Haemo directly sends a notification regarding blood shortage or blood requests to users with matching blood type and/or users in the same area to increase the likelihood of people helping.

-Our main features are to make booking blood donation appointments, attending blood donation events, and to request for blood supply within the users’ fingertips, just like ordering from food delivery app.

How we built it

-The designing: we use Adobe XD to make low fidelity wireframe, high fidelity wireframe and prototype, and graphic assets used in the app.

-The making: We create a mobile application using React Native for front-end dev and Express, with Firebase for backend dev.

Challenges we ran into and what we learned

We as a team were pushed to collaborate and communicate in order to achieve the best final result within the limited period of time given. Also, the lack of sleep, obviously.