Responder

Inspiration

During my intern year as a resident physician in Emergency Medicine, I would find myself on overnight shifts with a sick patient in need of a lifeline. At 3am on a Saturday, it was generally frowned upon to call up the attending for advice unless the patient was truly crashing. The workaround for many of us physicians-in-training was to create private messaging groups where we could pool our collective (though novice) resources. Throughout my medical career in global health, I have found myself reaching out to these same core groups when I need a consult. The COVID-19 pandemic has been no exception, and it presents an even more urgent need--the creation of a medium where all authenticated frontline responders can network with each other over a secure, anonymous platform.

Requirements

We believe we need a way for verified providers to create / destroy groups on demand and share information securely (text, images, video) Users should be able to form stable connections so groups can quickly be created or destroyed This application should be able to have an instance spun up on demand so different task forces can be quickly formed