Papyrus

Inspiration

Aman being a Medical Doctor, faced several instances of having to give out forms to patients to fill. This not only resulted in lost time, but the information would also have to be read and recorded in the electronic health record system before a consultation. This has been a problem for patients also, with all the other members of the team often skipping medical appointments due to long waiting times with very short consultations.

What it does

The app basically has two parts to it. The first part is targeted at providers and the second at patients. Providers are given a customizable form. The questions are blocked into categories. There will be a provision for specialty-specific questions. Upon selecting the categories required, there will be an option to select, reorder or add specific questions.

When patients register on the app, they will be guided through adding the past history, which tends to remain the same for most consultations. Upon arriving at the clinic, the provider will show a QR code to the patients. On scanning this, the patients will be able to see the questions on their form and the responses that will be passed forward. If there is any information missing from the form, the patient will be prompted to fill that in. Any changes will be updated.

How we built it

The app has been built through Figma using the advice received from Medical Doctors. The app was shown to a couple of UK-based medical doctors for their expert opinion and validation. Several criteria were assessed, including convenience, the value of flexibility, and the possibility for future integration.

Challenges we ran into

The main challenge that we ran into was creating dropdown menus for the prototype to ensure it functions. While we were able to create dropdown menus, we unfortunately were not able to integrate them into our existing prototype and therefore had to be discarded.

From the business model side, we had difficulties in identifying the correct monetization strategy for the project. While our brainstorm led us to three possible solutions; charging the providers, either a fixed or subscription price or create a provide pharmaceuticals and health tech companies a user database at a cost, so that they have access to potential participants for clinical trials of medication, devices, and so on. To come to a conclusion, we spoke to Lars Schnidrig who provided us great insights into how we can go about this for this project, and also take into consideration external factors that may play a role in our decision.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're proud of being able to come together as a team and collaborate. We made use of various technological solutions that many of us were not aware of such as Trello, Google Jamboard and Mural. Second, we as a team were able to fill in one another's void.

We're all quite entrepreneurial and building an MVP in two days has been a challenging, yet enjoyable experience for us.

What we learned

Working in teams really helped accelerate our learning. We each had the chance to teach one another. One team member taught the others how to use Figma and how to perform wireframing and one team member shared his real-life experiences working as a medical doctor and how our solution impacts that. The third team member explained to us how our business model is viable and the final team member showed us different computer languages that can help perform different tasks.

What's next for Hackathon LBS Healthtech

We're looking into continuing this project and help it realize its potential. We hope to use the prize from this competition to ensure the functionality of our MVP and test out this prototype to get valuable feedback from medical doctors around the country.

Built With

• figma