Inspiration
While it may be hard to accept, most of us will require some type of care assistance after a certain age .They may be used to handling everything themself, dividing up duties with their spouse, or relying on family members for minor help around the home. But as they get older and their circumstances change, getting around and taking care of themself can become more and more difficult. While increasing age gives so many health issues to the older citizens who forget things easily. Mostly aged people have Dementia and they forget things easily most of the time their medicines too. Medicines help us live longer and healthier. But, taking them the wrong way or mixing certain drugs can be dangerous. Side effects can be relatively minor, such as a headache or a dry mouth. They can also be life-threatening, such as severe bleeding or irreversible damage to the liver or kidneys. Medications' side effects also can affect your driving. With this we need to be careful to keep track of our medicines and use them safely.
Artificial intelligence is showing great promise in areas of health care. From smartphones to motion sensors, technology experts are using the Internet to get wireless devices to talk to each other to keep older citizens and many other patients safe and improve their health and well-being.
Polypharmacy plays an important role in aged patients Memorizing multiple drug instructions is tedious and challenging Missing a dose or overdose is harmful Drug interactions may decrease efficacy and introduce side effects Therefore, with a motive to help the senior citizens , we have successfully presented an medical assistant app, Through this application, we aim to provide Easily “scan-and-input” the medical prescription using Optical Character Recognition (OCR), courtesy of Google Cloud Vision API Personalized drug schedule on daily routine, and record meals, exercise, and medical history based on the previous data.
What it does
We have successfully presented an android app SmartDoc, Which intends to assist the older citizens.Through this application, we aim to provide Easily “scan-and-input” the medical prescription using Optical Character Recognition (OCR), courtesy of Google Cloud Vision API Personalized drug schedule on daily routine, and record meals, exercise, and medical history based on the previous data.
How we built it
With the help of SmartDoc, We are just trying to assist the older citizens medically, and SmartDoc is very easy to use, Users have to create their account and after creating the account, they have to fill some basic information regarding their medical records and their daily routine and they have to upload their medical prescription which is prescribed by the doctors and the app will provide them the proper routine based on your data. All the users will be notified for every instance in the schedule i.e., the time they have to take the medicine with its dose, likewise all the instances in the schedule. The general methodology to develop this Medical-Assistant App is shown below :
Collection of Medical dataset. Optical Character Recognition on the Medical Prescription Validating the results of the OCR with the dataset. Scheduling the routine according to the prescription that includes the best time to consume the medicine based on the user’s daily routine. Developing the Android App for making all these things user friendly.
Challenges we ran into
We built this app from scratch and for this we have to learn the flutter from the very basics. We had the problem At the time of connecting all the pages togerther we also got so many errors But in the end we solved it after reading a lot of documentation.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
For any medical assistant, it’s a humbling experience to be able to provide patients with the care and support they need. It’s even more fulfilling when tending to the elderly, as they rely on more people other than the average patient. Plus, we are trying to help senior members for daily struggles they face, which makes our SmartDoc care even more rewarding.With the motive to help the senior citizens , we have successfully presented an medical assistant app, Through this application, we aim to provide Easily “scan-and-input” the medical prescription using Optical Character Recognition (OCR), courtesy of Google Cloud Vision API Personalized drug schedule on daily routine, and record meals, exercise, and medical history based on the previous data.
We have successfully presented an android app SmartDoc, Which intends to assist the older citizens.Through this application, we aim to provide Easily “scan-and-input” the medical prescription using Optical Character Recognition (OCR), courtesy of Google Cloud Vision API Personalized drug schedule on daily routine, and record meals, exercise, and medical history based on the previous data.
What we learned
After completion of this app we can say that now we have a good grasp in flutter , also we got the chance to work on cloud vision api along with that we learnt flask. We got to learn so many things while working on this App.
What's next for SmartDoc
In future we want to add more features on this app and also we want to Improve the functionally (ex. Integrate telemedicine :live chat and video visiting the doctor, emergency calls, etc.) of this app.
Voice Assistant : The speech is the most familiar mode of interaction that requires little learning or literacy and audio speech with regional language support can help users easily understand.
Increasing Dataset : As for the future work, a larger dataset with more handwritten medicine names will be used and trained to reach higher accuracy.
Video chat : Connect face to face with a doctor and you can easily ask there.
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