PharmaLink

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What Got Us Started

Switching prescriptions between pharmacies can take forever—an hour or two—with all the calls, faxes, and paperwork. This means patients wait longer for their meds, and pharmacists get stuck with extra tasks. We wanted to fix this and simplify things for everyone.

What It Does

PharmaLink is a web app where doctors can request medication transfers online, and pharmacists can see, okay, and finish them right away. Patients don't wait as long, there are fewer phone calls, and pharmacies have a simpler process. It’s a win for everyone!

How We Made It

We’ve seen these problems up close, since some of our team has worked in pharmacies. We used Python and Flask for the backend stuff, HTML/CSS/JavaScript for what you see, and a basic database for our demo. We made a working version pretty quickly, focusing on speed, simplicity, and making it easy to use.

What Gave Us Trouble

At first, we tried to do too much all at once, which slowed us down. It was hard to decide what we really needed for the demo and what was just extra. We also had to figure out how to connect everything from front to back, and we didn't have much time.

What We're Happy About

We got a fully working basic version done during the hackathon.

We made a simple, easy-to-use design for doctors and pharmacists.

We planned a process that can be expanded later with actual databases, login stuff, and alerts.

What We Figured Out How to deploy A website onto the web using render

We got hands-on experience with full-stack development.

We learned how important it is to pick the right features when you don’t have much time.

We saw how people use the workflow, which helped us improve the design.

What’s Next for PharmaLink

We’re going to make different dashboards for doctors and pharmacists.

We’ll add alerts when transfers are approved.

We’ll connect it to a cloud database to properly handle patient info.

We’re thinking about a mobile-friendly version for using on the go.

Built With

• css
• css-frameworks:-flask-(backend)
• flask-cors-(api-handling)-frontend-tools:-vanilla-javascript
• for
• github-cloud-/-deployment:-render.com-(for-hosted-demo)-apis-/-libraries:-none-external-(fully-custom-demo-functionality)-other-tools:-virtual-environments-(venv)
• html
• html-database:-sqlite-(demo)
• javascript
• languages:-python
• optionally-mongodb-for-future-versions-version-control:-git
• pip