Inspiration
The idea originally came to us when Selin was thinking about her recent experience at the eye doctor. When the day of Selin’s appointment came, she woke up late and had to call the provider to let them know she couldn’t show up- but to her luck, the provider said that her new rescheduled appointment would be out of pocket since they didn't take her insurance anymore. They also could not tell her more besides ‘call other clinics to ask what insurance they take’ when it came to her finding a new provider. This is what sparked the idea for HealthSync.
What it does
- Meant to be a one-stop shop for appointments and finding clinics !
- Shows which institutions near you take your insurance
- Helps you schedule appointments
- Keeps all doctor appointments and myPortals all in one centralized space
- Very user-friendly UI, designed for everyone but with seniors in mind.
- Button that has “this is the institution i wanna go to, what insurance does it take”, “this is the insurance I have, what institutions can I go to”, and “schedule appointment”
How we built it
We built this website with Typescript, React and component libraries like MUI.
Challenges we ran into
- What data we should test our website on
- How to setup the scheduling system
Accomplishments that we're proud of
- System for checking insurance
- System setup for scheduling and cancelling appointments
- Filters that allow you to search for certain institutions based on a variety of options
What we learned
- It's a lot harder than we thought to easily find out what institutions take your health insurance
- How to set up the basics of scheduling systems
- Learned design principles that make UI's user friendly
What's next for HealthSync
We hope to add the following features in the future:
- Chatbot that helps users navigate throughout website- this should be on the main page and its idea is to help users find what they need quick by letting the bot search thru the website. Idea inspiration: for elderly who aren't tech savvy talk to the bot
- Being able to schedule online by filling out all ‘scheduling questions’ and having a provider call you back just to confirm-> saves having to wait in long phone lines at the doctor and saves time for the worker having to just confirm already given information.
- Waitlist & Standby Options: Allow patients to join waitlists and get automatically notified if an earlier slot becomes available, also allow students to access est. walk-in wait Times for clinics and see where in line they are and how much longer estimated.
- Notifies abt new doctors, new insurance, retired doctors, or loss of insurance in the area or in saved institutions
- Login mechanism: saves used institutions, helps send notifs about used institutions, and contains scheduled appointments, give access to trusted handlers (like a daughter being able to access and use the mother’s account to help her manage it and schedule), and my chart links to institutions if there are any
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