HealThyme

Landing Page - patients choose their location, hospitals can sign in
Booking Hospitals - based on user location, will list nearby hospitals available for booking
Waitlist - available for hospitals to update their waitlist information
Map
Booking Info

Inspiration

Canada is a large country, but with small number of local hospitals and clinics. While suffering from illnesses and pain, waiting in a crowded hospital for hours until your turn comes will never be a pleasing experience. From the healthcare workers' points of view, the overcrowded workspace could cause a chaotic environment that distract them from their work. Especially, since the space is fully occupied with patients, contagious disease infections and secondary contaminations will be rampant. This could easily expose both our community members and healthcare workers to harmful diseases. For our community and the healthcare workers that we are always thankful for, we designed a healthcare-related website that can increase their safety, time efficiency, and convenience: _ HealThyme _.

What it does

HealThyme takes the location of the user, and generates a map indicating each of the hospitals closest to the user as well as how many people are in line in front of them. The user interface is especially designed so that comparison would be very easy between the different hospitals in terms of their distance and wait time. Once the user has chosen a hospital or clinic they think is the best fit for their situation, the user is able to book a time at that said hospital, saving them time, and maybe even their life. HealThyme not only appeals to people who are seeking medical help, but it also acts as a platform for hospitals. Each hospital is able to sign up and view how many people have booked appointments , and manage the patients using our website. Any changes that the hospital makes, the user/patient will also be able to see it as well.

How we built it

We built it using React.js, and Microsoft Cloud (Azure), live sharing between our teammates.

Challenges we ran into

One of the most prominent challenges were that one of our teammates couldn't connect to WiFi, meaning that they weren't able to code on their device during the majority of the hackathon. More, another one of our teammates weren’t able to run nvm start. So that hindered us a lot since we had to use VSCode Live Share and if one person had an error, the other would not be able to see their changes.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

For most of our teammates, it is our first time interacting with and utilising React.js, so being able to code a functioning website with a language that we barely know is a huge accomplishment in itself. More, we were able to integrate the Azure Maps API into our website, which was just honestly really cool.