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App architecture
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Vue monitoring vitals real time from FitBit devices
The backend db that controls the profiles routing

Inspiration

Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, non-urgent healthcare services had reduced drastically and there is an increasing demand for remote outpatient solutions.

Patients’ long-term vital signs are invaluable for physicians to make better-informed decisions. Continuous monitoring of vital signs, such as respiration and heart rate, plays a crucial role in early detection and even prediction of conditions that may affect the wellbeing of the patient.

Current wearable devices such as smartwatches offer a convenient alternative to traditional vitals monitoring devices, however, not all wearables are as accurate and provide visualization of health data for users. Moreover, it is hard for doctors to retrieve data collected from these devices.

In light of this, we would like to build a real-time remote health monitoring system monitoring patients' vital signs through wearable devices, and visualizing data with different levels of access for different target audiences such as healthcare providers, doctors, nurses, managers, and users.

Ideally, the system would aid doctors in disease diagnosis and contribute to early detection and timely treatment of illnesses.

What it does

The app facilitates remote health monitoring by collecting vital signs such as heart rate via connected wearable devices, updating data in QuickBase, and presenting data in the form of a data visualization dashboard.

Features

Health data collection

Health data is collected via connected wearable devices such as Fitbit smartwatch

Data visualization

Health data is visualized and presented in the form of a dashboard

Alert system

When a value exceeded the threshold, the app will alert the corresponding healthcare provider via Microsoft Outlook

Health management

All data including Electronic Health Record (EHR), patient medical history, vital signs, and healthcare provider information are stored and managed via the app

How we built it

Data management using Quickbase

All health-related data are stored and managed in QuickBase

Front-end development using Vue & back-end development using Express

Our developer built the app using Vue and Express and deployed using Heroku

Wearables connection using Fitbit web API

Fitbit smartwatch is connected to the app using Fitbit web API

Challenges we ran into

Time zone was a challenge, as we have 3 different time zones and not all developers are awake at the same time. However, we are able to overcome this through effective communication and planning.