MedicalGatewayPlatform

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Inspiration

The name of that hackathon, EUvsVirus on its own sound challenging. We are artificial intelligence developers, we have to like challenges and we like them actually. As we reviewed the possible categories we decided to select one that organizers already named. However too many inspiring challenges was on that list we decided to do something in the field of coordination between ventilator inventors. The reason is obvious. Almost every day borns a new idea of how to build a ventilator from scratch. There are more than 30 ideas on this hackathon as well. Even if one of them is a very flexible solution with a great usage possibility, there is a great chance to disappear in the dark without any notice. It seems, coordination is necessary and inevitable. However, thinking in the old box like legal regulation, forced cooperation, chambers or panel conversations is a dead end. How can we help developers to build easier, share their knowledge and be a part of a worldwide community? We have to widen their potential by providing a highly scalable coding framework. However, the problem of coordination hasn’t been solved, it is possible to coordinate without regulation.

What it does

We made a software, more precisely a platform, Medical Gateway Platform.

Our software helps developers and medical workers to build and maintain ventilators more easily than they are doing today. MGP follows the logic of human thinking and lets the use of templates to simplify the construction of a ventilator maintenance process both machine level and remotely. new device can be started with with a couple of clicks. Both the equipment and the patient can receive unique ID so with MGP every ventilator – open source or industrial manufactured – can be part of the same remote maintenance and observation system in the hospital. We provide clean and highly customizable user interface where every data of a patient are shown. Devices configuration and attributes can get changed quickly even remotely. Our software has built-in warning and alarm mechanism to be able to work in area where skilled crew are not nearby.

How we built it

We decided to create a platform-independent way. That’s why we write the framework in multiple programming languages from the beginning such as Python, Java and C++. There are some unique and notable coding solutions like defensive coding, singletons in python, protected member variables, functions and classes, piped communication, or demangling, that means type checking and using without importing the type itself.

Documentation are available here

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We could find a solution that really helps open source projects and their developers.
We succeed to plan a robust platform that have reasonable advantages for being alive after that epidemic.
We already have a highly documented and production ready solution.
Code works in Python, Java, C++.
The problem of coordination hasn’t been solved yet, but we find a solution with high impact to society.
Our solution is for medical equipment like Google Auto and Apple CarPlay for vehicles and drivers. We try to invent modern solutions and aspects in a traditional and sensible field of life and industry.

What's next for MGP – Medical Gateway Platform

There are 3 most important steps in front of MGP. First one is get used by as much open source ventilator projects as possible. This way the effort of devoted people can be used with more efficiency in the near future. After MGP proved its strength it’s time to make the next step forward.

Second step is to reach the use of MGP based solutions in the medical industry too. Open source projects ain’t real competitors for traditional companies of the healthcare industry but the experience with low cost hardware and the know-how of home made design can improve their manufacturing too. The situation is just the same with the software. Differences in the field of performance or quality of hardware parts happen in normal processes too when manufacturers should change their suppliers. MGP has a clearly separated workflow, and a very flexible structure. Behavior of the software can be changed even runtime. Therefore we are thinking in a changing world which we might face in the near future our solution is a good platform for healthcare industry to build ventilators.

If we proved the strength of Medical Gateway Platform in maintaining and remote controlling ventilators we are eager to step even forward and use MGP in case of other medical devices as well to build a strongly unified medical platform for a highly data driven use.

We are thinking with open source code companies can build cheap solutions quickly. This ability can help the companies in Europe to have greater share in the world scale medical industry. We aim to utilize those facts and circumstances to promote our solution for everyone.