Inspiration
Access to healthcare has become particularly difficult with COVID-19. Hospitals have been sending patients back home due to lack of resource and organization. This inspired us to design an app to help alleviate the workload of frontline workers.
What it does
Priority Health Care lets patients send a detailed description of their symptoms to their local hospital to specify why they need an appointment. This message passes through an auto corrector for accuracy and the Google sentiment analysis API. It then proceeds to sort the messages from most negative to most positive and outputs them in a CSV file for the hospital to view them in order of priority and/or emergency.
How we built it
We used NLTK corrector, Python, HTML, Google Cloud Natural Language API and Django
Challenges we ran into
We had a hard time debugging and experimenting with Django while linking the separate files in our software to form a cohesive application.
Accomplishments that we are proud of
We integrated the Google Cloud Natural Language API to our backend software and combined it with a frontend using Django. Our main accomplishment was extending our computational software into a fully functional application for our users to interact with.
What's next for Priority Health Care
Next steps are a big part of any project as it showcases a project’s potential for future societal impact. With regards to Priority Health Care, although focused on the healthcare industry, has numerous potential applications ranging from economic care package distribution to expression in the social sciences.
In the healthcare industry, a more robust version of our software would allow for not only prioritization of local health offices rather could permit ambulance prioritization for emergency services allowing the front line workers an opportunity to save more lives. The essence of our project is a hierarchical analyzer based on a linear combination of sentiment analysis and pre-cursor factors. The simplistic yet deeply connected concept of this software is what makes it flexible in applications throughout various fields.
As mentioned in the video, an alternative industry is that of education, where the software can act as a means of prioritization for offering office hours with professors or even teaching assistants.
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