MediX - Remote Delivery of Medications

Ease the delivery of needed medications by providing cost efficient pickup and delivery options

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MediX is a web application that helps patients find and receive the medication they need while maintaining Social Distancing during and post COVID19.

Inspiration

Social Distancing is constantly brought up to help in flattening the curve. This social issue is not only important now but will be extremely important post COVID19 to help reduce the risk of spreading the disease even more. Currently, we're only allowed to go out for essentials but it should be noted that we need to look at other solutions to improve social distancing.

This is when we turned to drone delivery as an option. It's currently growing as an option for delivery as we become more remote and the demand for delivered goods increases. To ensure the health and financial well being of those during this time, we created a service which tracks the closest locations to get delivered medications so that costs are kept low and social distancing is improved.

What it does

As quoted on our homepage:
Input: The user inputs the name of the medication they are looking for From here, our application:

  • uses the user's location and finds all the closest "hubs" (Pharmacies and Doctor's Offices)
  • checks each closest hub's quantity of the named medication and finds if they have it in stock
  • if there IS the medication in stock at that hub, the website offers the user an option to pickup or deliver the medication
  • gets the route of the person's current location to the hub's location so that they can pickup/track their medication
    Output: Map of route of the tracked delivery or pickup

How We Built It

Used the Google Map APIs to display a map on our webpage. Used Django to build the framework of the website using HTML, CSS & Javascript for front-end and Python as back-end. Used Visual Studio Live Share to collaborate on code and Figma to plan the design for the website.

Challenges We Ran Into

Correctly implementing the directions API with our map, integrating our back-end code with the front-end effectively and fully deploying with the domain

Accomplishments that We're Proud Of

Deploying at least one API in our application and learning how to use Google Cloud as a hosting server for our website

What We learned

All the great API tools in Google Cloud, using Django to make a web application and tools to help collaborate on code

What's next for MediX

Collecting a larger database of locations and quantities of medications around the world, improving the functionality of our web application

Other Notes

Credit for photos from Unsplash

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