Within reach medical assistance

Inspiration

The casualties that occurred when the patient is not taken to seek medical help at the precise time are what inspired us to go on with this project.

What it does

The system uses screening for flagged words and asks patients about their health at a particular point and then determines what type of doctor that user needs. It then continues to search a 10 km radius for dentist offices, walk-in clinics, physiotherapy centers, or other need-specific locations. Using Microsoft's bing's API, the system determines the shortest time away of the destination using real-time traffic. Then a map is generated to the optimal medical center from the current place of the user.

How we built it

We built the application front end using angular and the backend with flask, We incorporated the Cisco Meraki and Twilio APIs.

Challenges we ran into

The project in itself is a challenging task to complete as we aren’t previously familiar with the technology we will be using. Our biggest challenge was putting all the different components together as well as doing a lot within a short time constraint.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud to have completed the project in a limited time frame with full efficiency by testing it multiple times. Additionally, we have tried to keep a user-friendly interface design on such a complex back end which in itself was a huge accomplishment. We are also proud to take steps in creating a more efficient wait time service and also aiding the cause of better health and being safer.

What we learned

The journey of building the project was a great learning experience for the team as we had the first time collaborated to build a project together. We learned how to leverage the functionality of AngularJs to create a responsive front-end page. we also learned how to use RestAPI HTTP to get and post requests to communicate between the front end and the backend network.

What's next for Within reach medical assistance

We plan to put together 'Within reach medical assistance' to an extent where anyone can enter their needs and find the best place to get help.

Built With

• angular.js
• cisco-meraki
• css
• html5
• javascript
• python
• twilio