Inspiration
We all were discussing how we had elderly family members that struggled to remember to take medications, to contact pharmacies for refills, and to remember changing pill dosages because of a number of reasons, such as dementia or Alzheimer's. Personal medication management is hard, especially when you struggle with memory issues. Thus we wanted to create an app that caregivers, loved ones, or doctors could use to help patients manage their medications well.
What it does
A loved one, caregiver, or doctor can input the patient’s medication names, dosage amounts, and dosage frequencies. From there, the app will remind the patient at a specific time that they have to take their medication. Once they do take the medicine, they can indicate that on the app that they have taken their allotted dosage. This can be referenced later to ensure that the patient doesn’t take any extra doses and to see if the patient took the medicine at the correct time. The calendar holds information on past doses and all future doses.
How we built it
We figma to plan out what the app would look like and how the elements would react with one another. Then we turned that plan into html, css, and JavaScript React code. Finally, we deployed this on Heroku.
Challenges we ran into
Certain styles we wanted kept giving us errors so we had to read through lots of documentation to figure it out. We had trouble figuring out how exactly we wanted to turn our figma ideas into one cohesive React app. Our initial plan to make a mobile app had to be modified after we finished all the frontend planning so we had to go back in and change things.
We ran into challenges using code with me plug in in android studio.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We’re all beginners when it comes to front-end development yet we managed to deploy a React app!
What we learned
We learned how to effectively plan out a frontend project. We also learned how to use certain available plugins to help with teamwork and planning. We learned how to take a challenge from idea to frontend deployment.
What's next for Med Tracker
We can implement many other features such as automatic notifications to a designated pharmacy that a medication needs to be refilled and delivered. Adjusting for odd and infrequent dosages for certain medications by allowing for a custom notification function. We could include pictures of medications so patients know what they need to take by sight as well. We also need to implement a good backend and associated database.
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