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Inspiration
Motivated by WeMade's insightful talk on developments in blockchain technology, our team sought to tackle the pressing issues of breaches, fraud, and transparency in the medical system. Notably, an alarming $95 billion out of the $1.1 trillion allocated for Medicare by CMS is lost to fraudulent activities. Our goal with HealthChain is to leverage the robustness of blockchain technology to offer a solution that ensures secure, transparent, private, and user-centric management of medical records.
What it does
HealthChain is a medical record site that connects to the blockchain to allow users to send, view, and edit their documents privately. The website has authentication and database connections with FireBase, and while not completed, we are implementing blockchain features through smart contracts to allow users to see what changes have been made and who has access to their documents.
How we built it
We built the HealthChain site using HTML and CSS, FireBase for authentication and database storage, and Flask for the backend, and while it has not been successfully implemented yet, we are planning to use Ethereum for the blockchain network.
Challenges we ran into
As a team of 4 beginners with no prior project experience, we had no clue what we were doing. We had to learn Firebase, flask, the basics of JS, GitHub, and web dev from scratch. Our time management was rough as we spent too much time learning authentication, and we had to abandon React as a front-end framework after trying to learn it from the basics.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
After spending half of our time learning authentication, we are proud of creating a website that has authentication and databases. We are proud of submitting a project after wanting to give up countless times. We are also proud of the connections we made in the event and how much we had to learn to get here.
What we learned
As a team, we learned the basics of web development, user authentication with Firebase, collaboration with Git Hub, connecting the front end to the backend of the Flask, working with the Firebase API for database and authentication, and delved into basic blockchain technologies.
What's next for HealthChain
We are planning to implement a proper blockchain feature using the Ethereum network and create an easy-to-use and secure system using smart contracts to view records, send them to doctors and medical personnel, and edit who has access to it and see what edits have been made to them. Furthermore, we plan to build a multi-factor authentication feature for security and allow other developers to add to our vision.
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