Monitor ++

Online medical repository to help streamline healthcare.

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Inspiration

Our team came from a slightly different background. Like most teams, many of our members want to pursue STEM, but some are looking into different careers in the health field. Because of this, we wanted to incorporate these elements together.

We feel like using technology to streamline medicine and healthcare is important. Given this opportunity, we should try our best to improve the medical community as it is quite literally lifesaving. As IB students, we know the importance of efficiency. We’re sure that you know the importance of this in your daily, academic, and work lives- it’s a universal requirement in order to accomplish all that we do. Medicine is a particular field filled with inefficacy; hospital wait times are way too long, the amount of healthcare workers is too low, and many more issues. Our website can help streamline it that much better.

What it does

Our website helps doctors be organized on an online platform. We all are aware of the rows of patient files at our family doctor- this app merges important capabilities together with patients' online records. Our app isn’t just limited to healthcare professionals. With dual login capabilities, we allow patients to check-in and use different components of the app as well. This includes a Covid-19 self-assessment that will redirect you as required to additional services.

For the healthcare worker component of the app, we provide the user with the ability to access a patient's profile. From there, they can look at their appointments via a google calendar, access important files, as well as see a summary of the user (i.e. their blood type) at a quick glance.

For patients, we currently have a self-assessment tool and access to important resources.

How we built it

We coded it using HTML with the IDE Microsoft Visual Studio Code. Due to the nature of the IDE, we could not work collaboratively as one could with Atom’s teletype for example. In order to progress, we each wrote small parts of code, and then helped one another troubleshoot and test. Once we had all our separate components, we stringed them together in order to get our final products.

Challenges we ran into

At first, we had a little trouble deciding who would code which page for the website. Also, initially, it was difficult to combine all of the separate web pages together. Furthermore, we had to learn some new HTML syntax in order to get the text and images looking the way we wanted on the website.

We used some unconventional methods to solve certain issues. At first, we attempted repeatedly to fix problems with code. We then realized there were a lot of “life hacks” we could do to make it a lot simpler. Instead of changing the logo size in code itself, we simply enlarged the image itself, which was a lot more efficient.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Some accomplishments we are all proud of is how strong the real-life applications are. It’s a practical app- everyone is involved in health in some way or another, and the field isn’t one that is 100% polished as of now.

We were also able to learn to use the IDE Microsoft Visual Studio Code, which was new to most of the group, fairly quickly, and were able to use the IDE to our advantage.

More so, we all genuinely enjoyed making it! At first, it was really stressful. But as the hackathon progressed, we found it more approachable and enjoyable.

What we learned

We learned that programming languages have a variety of uses, and that particular IDE extensions are very useful when doing specific tasks. Our team didn’t have an extremely thorough knowledge of many languages. The main language we used, HTML, was new for some of our team members. This gave us a chance to learn a lot about the technical aspects of developing programs.

Another major thing we learned is problem-solving! While we are all close, it was the first time the four of us worked on a project together. It was also our first hackathon for most of our team members. At first, it seemed daunting, but soon our ideas became reality, and it was much easier than anticipated to move forward.

Lastly, we learned how to work in short time scenarios. As we are all high school students, most of our projects were a lot more long term or expected a lot less if not.

What's next for Monitor ++

We would love to integrate more geocoding aspects into the app, and perhaps introduce a patient-doctor contact system. We truly believe in the capabilities of our product and hope to be able to expand it in the future.

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