Inspiration
The unnecessarily long wait times in clinics can be circumvented with a virtual health care system. This would allow doctors and patients to communicate more efficiently, mitigating risk and allowing doctors to help more patients.
What it does
This website allows a patients to create a ticket describing their symptoms. From the perspective of the healthcare worker, there would be multiple tickets from different people, allowing them to quickly diagnose each of these patients quickly.
How we built it
We first created the backend to allow two types of users: patients and healthcare professionals. We then created ticket system for patients that allows them to include as much detail as they want for the doctors to view. The program then allows healthcare professionals to claim tickets and respond with a diagnosis. Finally, we created a front-end to make the site more user friendly for both patients and doctors.
Challenges we ran into
We found it difficult to communicate between devices to transfer the tickets. Creating the front-end and linking it to the back-end effectively was also difficult to achieve.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We created a functional website and login system for both healthcare professionals and patients. The fully functional ticket system is what we envisioned would allow patient-doctor interactions to be more efficient.
What we learned
Using various tools can help facilitate coding the front-end, allowing us to focus more on the functionality over the overall look of the website. By splitting the work, the project could have been done more efficiently. We learned that the original vision can and probably will be altered when creating the code, and its good to adapt to your environment.
What's next for Medi-Tickets
The system can be made better with servers and clients that allow anyone anywhere to access our website. We envision this project to allow healthcare professionals to quickly diagnose and communicate with patients, so implementing a live chat or video call may be intuitive for the overall goal. Overall, this project needs to be rounded out so that the original goal, more accessible medical care, can be achieved.
