SugarID

Inspiration

Learning about how dieting impacts different diseases in my human physiology class. I felt that through using a non-invasive treatment such as regulating your diet, with the help of simple technology to make it manageable, it revives healthcare from reactive to proactive.

What it does

For diabetics, they face stress when trying to maintain their diet, especially for new patients. Our app does all the tedious work for you, with nothing extra. By putting in your blood sugar and last insulin injection, the app auto-recommends your next insulin injection and max carb intake. The photo-recognition function allows you to see how many carbs are in your meal with one easy picture.

How I built it

By being nocturnal. Functioning on EST, while in China :(

Challenges I ran into

Learning and testing with different types of app design.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Building a functioning app in 32 hours, with almost no dev experience... Integrating what I learned in class, to healthcare tech in the real world.

What I learned

Teamwork makes the dream work :)

What's next for SugarID

Ideas for 2.0: -Photo-function can tell which are “good” foods and which are “bad” foods (based on glycemic factor). -Making the photo instagramable? Allowing the carb numbers to show on the photo as cute tags so you can post to your ins story.