EHR Unity

Continuing to Code the Blockstack
Beginning to Code the Network
Simulating our idea via animal kingdom code
Coding our Animal Kingdom
Continuing to build our system
Options to view for patients
Animal Kingdom's Options
A visualization of how our system would like (patient options)
Blockstack's unique patient ID (simulated on the Animal Kingdom)
Animal Kingdom simulation

Inspiration

During the summer, the team began an ideation stage startup aimed at creating a digital remote health monitoring device for post-op care patients in order to ensure effective communication between the patient and doctor as well as collecting accurate quantitative patient data. However, after we started interviewing doctors in the Toronto area, we found that the main problem that they face is that there is no universal electronic health care record in Ontario. An EHR holds all the medical data for each patient including, but not limited to, diagnosis, prescriptions, medical images. The doctors were frustrated over the fact that if a patient moved hospitals, the new hospital would have to go over an arduous process of getting patient medical data from the old hospital. The doctors remarked that this was the biggest issue that they are currently facing. We were inspired by this opportunity once we realized all the good we could do with public hospitals in Ontario not to mention that by creating a universal EHR on the blockchain we would be ensuring that patient data remains absolutely secure and is not being viewed by unauthorized eyes.

What it does

Unity EHR creates a universal electronic health record that utilizes blockchain to keep patient data secure as well as easily accessible. Currently, our prototype allows doctors to view the medical history of patient’s that they have upcoming appointments with. After they have selected the patient, they can select which data they wish to view, for example, medical imaging or past prescriptions

How we built it

We utilized Blockstack, as it allows relatively inexperienced coders to create their own application of blockchain. Since we are brand new coders, we first used the Blockstack tutorial in order to understand how the software worked and how one can create their own blockchain. We also utilized Windows Powershell to run the command terms that allowed us to create the blockchain. We also had to use react for importing Data from the gais databse.

Challenges we ran into

As first time hackers, it was extremely hard to follow along with the tutorial, but through YouTube, we learnt how to properly use Blockstacks.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Learning how to use the tutorial in order to make our app and learning the different commands of Windows Powershell.

What we learned

We learnt a lot about coding especially using different commands on Powershell and how blockchain works. We also learnt of all the possible applications of blockchain in healthcare.