Hospital Society

Inspiration

Since pandemic, hospitals are always crowded with corona viruses patients. Hospital , the place where people go for curing illness hence become the most dangerous and most likely place to get infected by the corona virus. Facing this problem, this team decides to build an online platform that can help decentralized the crowd in hospitals by providing online health service such as online health information, online medicine ordering and delivery. While building this platform we found out in this article https://www.ismp.org/recommendations/confused-drug-names-list, there are a lot of medicine that have similar name and commonly confused.

Furthermore, most of these medicines are considered dangerous drugs (according to this article https://www.addictioncenter.com/news/2019/08/15-most-dangerous-drugs/) and also recalling that most doctors have low readability handwriting in their prescription, we feel the need to add an OCR feature in our platform to reduce the chance of misuse drugs especially those dangerous ones.

What it Does ??

This team built an online platform called “Hospital Society”. “Hospital Society” is a website that connects doctors, patients and pharmacist in the purpose of providing a better health service. Here is the feature that this platform provide:

Optical Cognitive Recognition (OCR) System for Prescription This system help patients to transcript handwritten prescription(which usually has low readability and information) into a digital form prescription with additional information such as usage and dose of the drug.
Online Stock Management & ordering for medicine. After the prescription transcription is completed, a user can also purchase for the prescription and have the medicine send from the pharmacist to the patient resident.
Statistical and Medical Information about medicines Since this platform connects the 3 main role in health field (doctor, patient and pharmacist), this platform collects medical information and statistical information about the popularity / sales of a certain medicine which can be used as data for research purpose.

How we built it ??

This web platform is build with React as Frontend Framework and Flask for backend. We also use some library: Pytesseract for OCR process, React Bootstrap, etc. The front end part of this platform is built by 2 person and the same goes with the backend part. We use git github as our project’s version control and all of the code can be found here (https://github.com/tonyeko/garudahacks).

Challenges we ran into & Further plan for Project

Since all of the team members stay in different places, through out this hackathon, we face several communication problem while implementing our app according to plan, besides that we also face several technical problem while using the Pytesseract library but thanks God we are able to get through all of these problems. For futher plan, we would like to enhance user interface and user experience for our website and we would also like to e-payment system and integrate google map API in out website.