My friend and I thought of participating in this hackthon but not able to due to other work. We like to put forth the idea here so that someone can take it up if they find it useful for the cause. We posted the same information on the slack. Please excuse if this is violating community guidelines. Our main intention is put forward our idea. We do not seek any credit.
Background : • Doctors in Australia saw success in treating patients infected with Covid-19 with HIV drugs Lopinavir and Rotinavir. Same drugs were recommended for treatment by Indian health ministry. • China reported success using Japanese flu drug ‘Favipiravir’ to treat affected patients. • Doctors in the US cured a patient tested positive for Covid-19 using HydroxyChloroquine (Malarial drug).
Proposed Idea: Idea is to allow information sharing on medicines tried across different parts of the world to treat new outbreaks which do not have established treatments. This will help in faster recovery of the patients which reduces the load on the health care system. Eg., A patient without such information available to his/her doctor might take 10 days to recover. If the same patient were to recover in 6 days given the information was available to his/her doctor, it will help the hospital to handle more patients.
Names and PII are not required to be entered and hence not shared. So, patients’ privacy is not at risk. Given the penetration of mobile, a mobile app will help doctors working even in most remote health centers use this facility.
From what we understand about Datavant core strengths, they specialize in these type of applications (analysed data distribution).This will not only help in the fight against the current outbreak but future outbreaks too.
Technical details: Front end would be a mobile application using which the health professionals can enter data into the system and retrieve results. Mobile app will make REST API calls to back end server. Back end could be a REST server which would return (GET) and take data (POST). Server to run analytics on the collected data and give drug recommendations (including dosage details) based on the patient condition (details in the attachment). As a starting point, it could be a database matching using queries. Python could be used to run an algorithm to find the suitable recommendation given the input criteria. Attached word document has details of the form data to be collected for the idea and information to be presented to the health professional after entering the form to seek information.
Data entry form for doctors entering information of cured patients.
S.No Field Comments
1 Age
2 Gender
3 Weight
4 Height
5 Body temperature at the time of admission
6 Details of existing health conditions Eg., Hypertension, Diabetes
7 Medication taken for existing health conditions If available
8 Type of disease Selected from a list. Eg., SARS-Cov-1, SARS-Cov-2 (Corona), MERS, etc.
9 Symptoms at the time of admission Symptoms selected from a list. Eg., Fever, head ache, cough
10 Blood test results Radio button to be selected if blood test report is available.
Phase 1 of the application - A new form to be filled with details from the report
Phase 2 of the application - Test report when scanned using mobile camera excluding PII will be parsed and form is auto filled.
11 Urine test results Similar to blood test report 12 CBP (Complete Blood Profile) If available 13 Medicine administered A second form to enter details of day wise medication with dosage and improvements in patient’s health.
Form 2 : Medicine administered day wise S.No Day Medicine Dosage Change in patient’s condition 1 One Med 1 NA 2 One Med 2 NA 3 Two Med 1 observations
Form 3 : Query form for doctors seeking information on medication.
S.No Field Comments
1 Age
2 Gender
3 Weight
4 Height
5 Body temperature
6 Details of existing health conditions Eg., Hypertension, Diabetes
7 Medication taken for existing health conditions If available
8 Type of disease Selected from a list. Eg., SARS-Cov-1, SARS-Cov-2 (Corona), MERS, etc.
9 Symptoms Symptoms selected from a list. Eg., Fever
10 Blood test results Radio button to be selected if blood test report is available.
Phase 1 of the application - A new form to be filled with details from the report
Phase 2 of the application - Test report when scanned using mobile camera excluding PII will be parsed and form is auto filled.
11 Urine test results Similar to blood test report 12 CBP (Complete Blood Profile) If available
Data presented to the doctor after submitting the above form (Form 3)
2-3 recommendations ordered by success percentage.
Recommendation 1 – Medicines along with dosage day wise Average number of recovery period (in days) Side effects observed if any Success rate – percent (eg., 65%) and ratio (eg., 72/110).
Recommendation 2 – Format similar to recommendation 1.
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