Taku

Taku, helping patients breathe a little easier when it comes to diagnostics and screening.

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Inspiration

Takuo Aoyagi's mathematical formula to reduce noise in pulse oximetry testing. We wanted to do something similar by reducing the noise a patient or caregiver encounters trying to navigate the complexities of screening and diagnostics.

What it does

Taku is an app/website that allows patients and their caregivers to create a profile and discover the benefits, insights, accessibility, usage, and education around screening and diagnostic products. COVID-19 has brought to light the glory of telemedicine, however it hasn't done much to make it easier for patients to understand. Taku allows users to indicate what stage they are at in the healthcare journey and Taku curates the experience to benefit them from day one. It prioritizes accessibility so it can help patients navigate direct to consumer testing as well as patients under and /or non-insured to discover what resources are available within their community. Once accessibility is navigated then Taku allows patients and their caregivers to record, monitor, and escalate their screening and diagnostic records.

How we built it

We built the stack by prioritizing data science and comprehension of the user journey. Primary work was leveraging existing stack of google sheets, python libraries, data scrapers, google data studio, bubble.is, react, R, and adobe indesign/ premeire/cloud.

Challenges we ran into

We needed to produce a complete environment to support the global user journey and design an experience that would allow us to grow beyond the diagnostics/devices we prioritized (pulse oximeters, qt-pcr, antigen, antibody, etc). Lung was the initial organ for our target product profile but by having a comprehensive user journey we are able to scale our environment since the user journey accessing and navigating testing and diagnostics is consistent throughout all of health indications.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

A team of strangers coming together and over 5 days producing this effort. We are also pretty proud of the UX since none of us are designers, developers, etc.

What we learned

Change management, project management, collaboration, design thinking, patient centricity, and a little about each other.

What's next for Taku

We will add more robust functionality to support the complete healthcare journey of users and flesh out the caregiving module we barely scratched the surface on.

Drive with all of our assets: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vyrSBLiqWgwboD6xZNYzVyXmtqOr6Qt_

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