PhysioMe

Inspiration

Our inspiration behind PhysioMe, was born out of a genuine desire to alleviate the challenges faced by individuals due to time-consuming queues and packed schedules, which have been exacerbated by the global pandemic. We recognized that booking healthcare appointments has become increasingly difficult over the years, often discouraging people from seeking necessary care. Our aim was to empower these individuals by providing a solution that not only streamlines appointment booking, but also creates an efficient recovery through personalized stretches.

PhysioMe was designed to liberate individuals from the constraints of time consuming queues as well as to ensure that patients can easily recover from their injuries without having to go to physiotherapy multiple times in one week, by instead completing their assigned stretches. Especially since the global pandemic, the process of getting a healthcare appointment has elongated drastically, and people with busy schedules often find themselves not making appointments because they are too busy to stand in a line or make a phone call. We hope that with PhysioMe, they are able to find guidance as well as efficiency with our booking tools and stretch library.

What it does

PhysioMe is a user-friendly website designed to simplify the process of booking physiotherapy appointments. Through an intuitive spread-sheet like calendar feature, patients can easily view available time slots, enabling them to book appointments at their convenience. After selecting the time that they want, they are sent a confirmation message to their email, and voila! Appointment booked! Additionally, the platform has a comprehensive stretching library, which offers both customizable stretches prescribed by physiotherapists and pre-designed stretching packages to aid patients’ recovery even outside their appointments. Stretches can be assigned by patients physiotherapists and customized to their fitting, or patients can complete some of the premade packages offered.

How we built it

We built PhysioMe using html, css, and a little bit of javascript. The code reader we used was visual studio code.

Challenges we ran into

Most of the challenges we ran into stemmed from the team having very little experience working in html and website building in general. At the beginning, we were both pretty confused and didn’t know where to start, so we’re very proud that we got a mostly functioning website done in the 48 hours, although it doesn’t look completely like how we envisioned it. We also struggled a bit in terms of how we were going to execute our idea, as every time we thought we were done there was another page of code that needed to be created. Overall, the time limit really challenged our ability to stay on task and create a good piece of work which we could submit. Error checking and making sure our website was 100% functional was also something we struggled with a lot, and do feel like we could improve more if we were given the chance to do this again with more knowledge.

Accomplishments that we're proud of**

Coming from the challenges we faced, the biggest accomplishment to us from this hackathon would be gaining new knowledge in three different coding languages. Although learning them in a couple days was a struggle, we are happy that we familiarized ourselves with the languages by the end of the hackathon and feel like this new information will definitely benefit us. We’re also happy with some of the details we added in the website, and are satisfied with our overall website idea.

What we learned

Other than the new languages that we mentioned before, in this hackathon we learned that making a website is not as easy as it seems to be. Even the littlest details like fonts and background colors need to be coded in! We definitely gained more respect for backend workers and will keep this knowledge in mind the next time we complain about the layout of a website. We also learned a lot about the time management skills that it takes for industry professionals to create quality work in short amounts of time. We also learned more about teamwork and problem solving, as the coding process had some bumps in the road.

What's next for PhysioMe

We hope to first improve our code and make sure our error checking is a lot more thorough, as there are still some voids in our code that we weren’t able to touch up. We would also continue to update our website and expand our exercise library and create a working search bar. After that, we would probably work more on our UI/UX and make it more appealing to users, and then start on getting it developed to the public and pitching it to people. In the future we also plan to create the administrators side, meaning physiotherapists will be able to create accounts and upload their own pictures and videos for patients to use. We definitely believe that websites/applications like these will be seen in the near future, and have good hope in PhysioMe.