MediSearch

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Inspiration

Since this is a medical related hackathon, we came up with the idea to have a website that gives detailed facts on medicine. Most of the time when people are prescribed medication by doctors, they are not fully aware of all the effects they can have. It is also a useful place for people in the medical field to make searches and study different medications.

What it does

MediSearch is a user-friendly web application that allows users to search for any medication out of the FDA's drug database. The user can load through their search results and click on the desired medication and view a detailed list of its usages, warnings and ingredients.

How we built it

We used Next.js and react for our codebase. For our database, we fetched drug APIs from the FDA

Challenges we ran into

Trying to figure out how to use the APIs because the documentation is complex and hard to follow. Fixing merge conflicts.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud of having a fully functioning website in the short amount of time we had.

What we learned

We have developed a deeper understanding of using complex APIs from online.

What's next for MediSearch

Implementing an AI chatbox that a user can interact with any medical related questions. Also have AI reduce redundancy in our search results and simplify the drug facts.