EXQUISITE HEALTHCARE

Inspiration

A study conducted by WHO shows that the average health expenditure in African Countries stood at $135 per capita in 2010 which is only a small fraction of the $3150 spent on health in an average high-income country. All around Africa, there is a growing and lingering problem of lack of accessibility to health care. Hospitals deal with a lack of equipment and inadequate qualified personnel. Individuals have to deal with poor access to health facilities, health insurance, awareness of medical diseases and poor treatment. There is a need to improve communication between hospitals and better professional relationships between health professionals and hospitals to boost transfers, access to services without delay and adequate self-generating funding.

What it does

Our product will solve the problem of a stifled referral system in health care across Africa while leveraging the technology that is already accessible. Our main objectives include building an efficient referral system, allowing patient-to-health staff interactions to interact over the Internet for emergency diagnosis, create exposure for staff and researchers in well-established hospitals across Africa to collaborate on Research studies.

How we built it

We have a web application done in Vue.js and Tailwind CSS, a backend is done in Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL. We used GitHub and Azure App Service for collaboration and Continuous Integration and Deployment respectively.

Challenges we ran into

The time factor was an issue due to school commitments we had, sometimes making it difficult to allocate discussion times. One of the team members became unavailable from week two of the competition thus we had to reassign the tasks. We had faced bundle depletion challenges at times. Learning new technologies while executing tasks for the abbreviated period was not easy. We also had an issue with Git & GitHub workflow.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We were able to learn new technologies. We had not interacted with the technologies, but we pushed through and got to learn the concepts as we applied them in building our product. Being able to collaborate as a team virtually, under different time zones and come up with a working solution.

What we learned

We gained technical skills in the areas where we were working with various technologies. Getting an experience like a team working on a real-life solution. We also learnt more about time management and communication skills.

What's next for TEAM EXQUISITE

We hope to incorporate USSD technology to help users access some of our services. We also hope to have more hospitals registered in our system for more outreach. We also hope to have a system where we can help deaf people get an interpreter.

Built With

• azure-web-app-service
• github
• postgresql
• ruby-on-rails
• vue.js