iFindHospital

Application Landing Page - Admin Portal
Hospital Resource Detailed View
User Portal View
User portal to capture Hospital resources

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Inspiration:

Covid19 exposed that lack of a centralized hospital facility tracker that shows the real-time availability of beds, ICUs or ventilators across major cities in US. With Authorities not having sufficient information on the Availability of resources across hospitals, coordinators were really struggling to route patients from one hospital to another and we saw a long wait times .

It was really important for the coordinators and health officials to have the updated information at their disposal, as any delay in providing care was costing precious lives. There was a need for a Centralized monitoring system, which can provide insight on important hospital resources to optimally manage facility demand-supply continuum. So the thought of building something that can help officials look at live inventory across hospitals inspired us to build this application.

What it does

IHospital powered by Pega can help save lives by providing both patients and healthcare admins real-time insight into facilities availability; thereby guiding users reach out to the right facility at right time ; and optimally manage facility demand-supply continuum.

This application allows users to see a detailed view of Primary Facilities, Beds (ICU and Non ICU Beds), and Ventilators along with Hospital Location.

This information can really be critical in deciding, to which hospital a patient can be routed to in times of emergencies.

How we built it

This application is built using Pega platform 8.2.2 .

Challenges we ran into

While building this application one important consideration that we had in our mind was to keep the UI design as simple for this application to be used by health officials without much training. Secondly we were not sure on how the data is stored across hospitals, in order to integrate our application with different hospitals. We also had challenges in implementing an RPA solution to scrape data from Hospital networks because of the data security requirements around handling sensitive information.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

The basic version of the tool with the end-to-end scenario was built in four days. Thanks to Pega's rapid development platform, and out of box features which allowed us to speed up coding with minimal customization.

What we learned

Managing any emergencies/ Pandemic is a challenge without a centralized monitoring system. Health officials really need to be aware of facilities available at their disposal, to manage the supply and demand and reduce the average waiting time at hospitals for care.

What's next for IHospital?

Our application can be easily integrated with multiple hospital networks over as secured API connections to ensure data privacy. Similarly an RPA solution can also be implemented in order to fetch the updated facilities information from all participating hospitals. We are alos planning to provide a customized view for Providers and Hospitals to look for facilities across a given geographic location, for them to manage their resources more efficiently.

The plan is to make this tool available for Healthcare Clients, Government Authorities to help manage resources in these critical situations.

Built With

Pega