GSoC 2026 Final Evaluation Telehealth effectiveness and Necessity tracker

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Hello everyone,

This discussion summarises my work on TENeT (Telehealth Effectiveness & Necessity Tracker) during the GSoC 2026 coding period. The scope below starts from the official coding-period boundary on May 25, 2026 and does not include my earlier pre-GSoC contributions. PR #48 is included because its coding-period work was completed and merged after this boundary.

Coding-period contributions

1. Reproducible development and testing foundation

• #48 - Docker development setup: completed the Docker-based local workflow for the Flask backend, React frontend, nginx, Compose, environment configuration, Make commands, and onboarding documentation.
• #53 - Docker test completion: made fresh-checkout setup and seed/reset workflows reproducible, added deterministic local data and core scoring tests, and corrected Alaska community coordinates.
• #104 - Final evaluation blockers: introduced one canonical telehealth classifier across summaries, profiles, map/status APIs, and scenarios; added a consistency audit; fixed frontend Docker tooling; and reduced fresh-seed classification mismatches from 94 to 0 across 421 communities.

2. Community discovery, map experience, and data cleanup

• #54 - Region discovery API: added lightweight region summary and search APIs with filtering, validation, missing-data handling, frontend types, and tests.
• #55 - Community sidebar: added community search, filters, sorting, pinning, selection, resizable sidebar behavior, map synchronization, and frontend tests.
• #56 - Map layer polish: improved markers, selection, legends, tooltips, data-coverage presentation, and affordability-layer interaction.
• #57 - Performance data cleanup: removed synthetic performance seeding, prioritized real Ookla data, improved period selection and Alaska tile filtering, and completed the ingest dependency path.

3. Research profiles, reports, and community comparison

• #58 - Research profile foundation: created backend research profiles combining broadband, measured performance, affordability, healthcare access, telehealth readiness, and data-quality signals.
• #59 - Community reporting flow: added typed profile loading, safe missing-data formatting, downloadable PDF reports, share links, and an improved evidence panel.
• #60 - Map comparison polish: added pinned-community comparison profiles and a comparison dock while simplifying popups and keeping map/sidebar selection synchronized.

4. What-if Scenario Mode

• #61 - Scenario input cache: added reusable, season-specific cached inputs for fast scenario evaluation.
• #62 - Scenario preview engine: added the scenario engine and preview API for modeling broadband, clinic-access, and affordability assumptions without modifying baseline data.
• #65 - Scenario backend tests: covered validation, cache reuse, seasonal rebuilds, baseline parity, and response behavior.
• #66 - Scenario client state: added frontend contracts, API integration, debounced previews, request cancellation, caching, and URL state.
• #67 - Scenario map layer: added modeled markers, popups, legend, and selected-community scenario presentation.
• #68 - Scenario controls: added presets, sliders, reset behavior, modeled-output warnings, loading/error states, and impact summaries.
• #69 - Scenario app integration: connected Scenario Mode to the complete dashboard while keeping modeled and observed layers clearly separated.

5. Quality, accessibility, CI, documentation, and maintainability

• #70 - Health and command checks: stabilized the health API, CORS configuration, Make targets, type-checking, linting, and missing-data report tests.
• #71 - Discovery accessibility polish: improved labels, stable test selectors, assistive-technology support, and non-color-only status presentation.
• #72 - Playwright smoke coverage: added end-to-end coverage for search/report download, Scenario Mode and URL state, and community comparison.
• #73 - CI quality gates: added GitHub Actions checks for backend tests, frontend tests/type-check/build, Docker validation, and Playwright.
• #74 - Deployment and maintainer documentation: added contribution, testing, deployment, troubleshooting, demo, limitations, and maintainer guidance.
• #75 - Codebase audit: removed dead code and duplicate logic, centralized shared configuration/utilities, reduced unnecessary API work, and fixed Starlink pricing and traffic-light classification bugs.

6. Frontend hardening and final UI quality

• #88 - Frontend engineering baseline: strengthened validation commands, documented ownership boundaries, and introduced shared UI foundations.
• #89 - Domain semantics and metric presentation: centralized CAT, telehealth, healthcare-desert, confidence, and affordability labels and presentation rules.
• #90 - Frontend API hardening: introduced typed HTTP errors and query helpers, abortable requests, explicit partial-data handling, and focused API/hook tests.
• #91 - Map mode and URL state: centralized map modes, URL parsing/serialization, browser navigation behavior, and selected-marker focus logic.
• #92 - Map and scenario rendering hardening: improved Leaflet typing, removed duplicated styles, escaped backend-provided popup content, and preserved missing-data semantics and layer fault tolerance.
• #93 - Frontend QA and responsive polish: completed responsive sidebar, selected-region, tooltip, and comparison-panel refinements.
• #94 - Smooth continuous map zoom: added cursor-anchored fractional wheel/trackpad zoom with efficient Leaflet animation and regression tests.

7. Final correctness, data, reporting, and production readiness

• #105 - Real Ookla sample data: added an idempotent offline sample of 60 real 2024 Q4 Ookla tiles so fresh installations have useful measured-performance data.
• #106 - Season-aware community data: synchronized season and transport-mode effects across the map, sidebar, summaries, and search results.
• #107 - Trustworthy scenario results and validation (open): strengthens scenario validation, uses declared community transport modes, and removes misleading modeled healthcare-need deltas.
• #108 - Accurate and resilient community reports (open): improves report content, provider labels, map capture, long-content wrapping, dynamic pagination, page counts, and timestamps.
• #109 - Production backend hardening: moved production serving to Gunicorn, added validated runtime configuration and database readiness checks, added container health checks, and made CORS/debug defaults safer.

Short project summary

During the coding period, I developed TENeT from a working prototype into a more complete, testable, and deployable decision-support platform for telehealth planning in Alaska. My work covered reproducible Docker setup, community discovery and comparison, research profiles and PDF reporting, real broadband-performance data, season-aware analysis, interactive what-if scenarios, frontend and API hardening, automated tests and CI, maintainer documentation, canonical telehealth classification, and production readiness.

In total, this coding-period record contains 35 pull requests merged.

It was truly a great experience working with my mentors @pradeeban and Ryan Birmingham. Got to learn a lot from this journey of 3 months of coding period as well as the pre-coding period.
Thank you