Lub Dub

Our unique features include our character recognition software and partnerships with pharmacies
Our solution works to improve the health of seniors by recording blood pressures and providing real-time data to patients

Inspiration

This project was inspired by my team’s passion for improving human health. Given that approximately 1.13 billion people in the world suffer from hypertension, we were inspired to make a health hack for this. We believe giving people the ability to track their blood pressure changes and receive feedback on their blood pressure tends will allow people who struggle with blood pressure to take control of their health. This is why we designed LubDub: an app that allows users to scan their blood pressure monitors to get the blood pressure reading and input it into the app via character recognition.

What it does

Elderly patients forgetting the required data or being unable to interpret modern blood pressure devices is a common problem that prevents doctors from getting a consistent diagnosis of their patient's health. This is why our proposed solution is an app in which patients can scan and record blood pressure data directly from the monitor of the blood pressure machine being used, enabling the user to track their blood pressure over an extended period of time. The app will provide real-time feedback communicating with the user if their blood pressure is too high or low. This app is unique as it allows patients to receive points for logging their data which they can cash in for rewards at partnering pharmacies. This incentive will provide motivation to users to continuously track their blood pressure offering their physician crucial information related to their health. It also requires minimal user input through simply scanning the information using their phone camera. Relaying this information to physicians is crucial to maintaining elderly health.

How we built it

This user interface for this project was created using Justinmind. The functionality of our app is demonstrated through Python. A key challenge we faced during this project was our lack of experience in hackathons. Given that this was our first hackathon, we were unsure of what to expect. We also did not have extensive knowledge of Python. However, this gave us the opportunity to learn and expand our Python knowledge.

Challenges we ran into

As this was our first hackathon and with our limited knowledge, we struggled with finding a feasible way to demo our idea to the audience. Luckily with the help of our mentors and more research, we decided to show the back-end data collection and analysis process through Python (a language that we had a little experience with) as well as using JustInMind to show the UX-UI design and how users would interact with the app!

Accomplishments that we're proud of

I think our biggest accomplishment was being able to create a coded prototype and demo for our project within such a short time frame! Given the large-scale nature of our idea, we were all anxious about how feasible it would be to create within a day, but the entire team is very proud of our end result and look forward to hearing how we can improve further!

Here's a link to our final demo: https://bit.ly/3qjvj9a.

What we learned

This experience helped us to not only improve and expand our base knowledge on Python but how to use these skills to provide patients with a user-friendly experience by including features such as graphs to show their blood pressure over time. Furthermore, we've gained a better understanding of how to approach Hackathon challenges, truly understand the needs of the target demographic through journey-mapping and using this to add incentives that make this app unique as compared to what's currently on the market or other solutions available!

What's next for Lub Dub

Moving forward, we want to explore the use of Google APIs to develop functional character recognition software! This will not only prevent input errors but make it easier for users as they just need to scan a monitor and instead focus on next steps to improve their health! We'd also love to try to create the app itself based on the prototype we've demo-ed. Due to the time constraints, we weren't able to achieve these 2 goals but we believe that by allocating our time and learning the skills necessary to do so, we'd be able to further improve our end result!