Inspiration
Our main inspiration comes from the elderly and the non-tech savvy patients that are trying really hard to get adjusted of the new form of telemedicine communication. The use of video calls and online forms are new resources that are outside from their expertise of knowledge and takes away from the interpersonal relationship that doctors have with patients. Our project revolves around the purpose to make their doctor visit easier to access and overall beneficial experience.
What it does
It is a simple, user friendly video chat website, where all you have to do is type in/click a easy to remember link and you will automatically be connected into the video chat with no logins, or extra steps required.
How we built it
This website is built using vanilla JavaScript, with PeerJS as a wrapper around WebRTC. It uses the url path as a video chat id, and can start a video chat by just navigating to the url in which you want to use. It is hosted using Firebase hosting, and uses their URL rewrite engine so that every path is always redirected to index.html.
Challenges
One challenge was learning how WebRTC worked in the short amount of time that we had, as well as making it easy to use for those of whom are not very technically savvy.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are proud of being able to build a realtime video chat website within 2 days, without any prior knowledge of how to use WebRTC.
What we learned
We learned how to use WebRTC, and how it can benefit the medical field.
What's next for Simple Telemedicine Visits
The next steps for Simple Telemedicine Visits would be to make the UI prettier, as well as add support for group video calls. Another idea that we had was to include a survey before the patients were connected to ask for basic medical data such as their temperature, medication information, insurance information, and all necessary recurring patient forms.
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