Coco - Your Quarantine Companion

Symptom tracker to improve the communication gap between health authority and patients during their 14 days quarantine.

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Inspiration

Two friends who were tested positive and experienced communication gaps between the health authority and themselves.

What it does

  • Reduces the manual communication & documentation burden between health authorities and people who need to be in quarantine
  • Facilitates the information flow between patient and health authorities
  • Patients can track their symptoms and transmit only the relevant data to the health authorities
  • Health authorities can access the data in various formats

How we built it

  • Frontend: Progressive web app written in TypeScript with Angular
  • Backend: RESTful web service written in Java with Spring Boot and an PostgreSQL database
  • Infrastructure: AWS hosting with load balanced EC2 Instances and a continuous deployment pipeline for the frontend

Challenges we ran into

  • Figuring out how health authorities are working
  • What quarantine measures are there in other countries? We want to provide universal quarantine recommendations
  • Applying the CSS template
  • Defining a clear USP and scope for prototype
  • Finding robust data on the number of health authorities and their employees in Europe

Accomplishments that we are proud of

  • Working prototype
  • Solid technical foundation
  • Complete business plan
  • Appealing pitch video

What we learned

  • Power of cross-functional teams
  • Concentrate energy on the absolute necessary for the prototype

What's next for Coco

  • Providing dashboards for the health authorities to view the status of their patients
  • Short-term improvements i.e. adding different levels of severity to symptoms (low, medium, high fever)
  • Further improve security: User verification via third party verification service with the necessary expertise (i.e. https://www.idnow.io/, https://verimi.de/en, https://netid.de/)
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