Inspiration

Intrigued by our family member's experience with diabetes, we decided to start a project to provide a simple and effective system to help diabetes patients manage their blood sugar levels and maintain a healthy lifestyle, preventing life-threatening complications while minimizing the costs needed.

What it does

Medmentor connects a doctor from a healthcare provider directly to the patients, where patients are encouraged to record their daily meals, medical intakes, and exercises, which will be used to estimate their blood sugar level and notify the patients if any cases of hyperglycemia/hypoglycemia occur, and help patients react accordingly. In addition, the patient's activity can be recorded and stored in a point system where they can use vouchers for grocery, transportation, or medicine. The system also reminds patients when to take their medicine and when to make a monthly appointment with their doctor.

How we built it

Using Python as our backbone, we integrated MongoDB to store our patients' blood sugar levels, appointment dates, the number of doses remaining, and reward types. At the same time, Twilio SMS API is utilized to run the SMS messages. The front end is designed using HTML & CSS.

Challenges we ran into

Before beginning our project, we had to do a lot ò research about the background ò the problem we were trying to solve. This research taught us a lot about the condition of Diabetes in this country. More than 1 in 5 people have undiagnosed diabetes and most of the challenge is trying to convince people to go to the doctor. We hope our service encourages people to keep track of their healthy habits and also afford healthy foods. Most of our challenges with the project are code errors and the application of Databases and APIs. Another difficult obstacle is how we can connect the front and backends of the project.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

When we mentioned this to our mentors, they were proud of the idea we chose to tackle. Diabetes í a big problem in this country and the healthcare department ends up spending a lot on diabetic patients and we hope to bring down those costs for the Government as well. We are proud of our progress, especially in utilizing APIs and Databases for easier data management.

What we learned

Throughout this project, we spoke to people who have diabetes and how our service could help them. We were able to implement their feedback into our product too. Our team has learned various Python Databases and APIs and their application, and how to connect the website with the backends.