MedAlerts

Inspiration

We were inspired to give patients and health care providers a system to communicate effectively. We wanted an all-in-one application to help busy health care providers ensure their patients are safe from missed doses, falls, and Emergency Room visits.

What it does

All-in-one solution to combine prescribing and medication tracking together. Allows the health care provider to enter prescriptions, which are filled by the pharmacist and then tracked by the patient. Ensure accountability through communication between patient and health care provider. Prevent drug and allergy interactions. Prevent missed doses, falls, and Emergency Room visits. Provide peace of mind for family, patient, and health care provider.

How we built it

Back-end

For the back-end, node.js, and express.js were used.

Front-end

For the front-end react, tailwind css, tailwind, and mongodb were used.

Prototype

Adobe XD was used to build the prototype. We used 10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design to be sure the prototype was designed for as many users as possible. From NNG.

General

We also used discord, git, github, foundance, and devpost.

Honourable mention

We tried to use django, but it was unsuccessful.

Challenges we ran into

This was our first hackathon together!!! Brainstorming how the application should function was challenging for us. We had some technical issues in the back end (django). We also had some communication issues which was resolved by improving our note taking (please see below) to document our actions.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud we got together and worked hard over this weekend. We are proud to be part of this opportunity and are looking forward to the next chance to join another hackathon.

What we learned

We learned that making memos and taking notes help improve communication. Having notes also kept us on track. This is true any time from the initial brainstorming to the final hand-in. We will make sure we keep memos and notes on all projects we work on in the future. We also learned that during times of frustration, solutions always come after team discussions.

What's next for MedAlert

We are hoping that we can make MedAlert a reality. We hope to prevent missed doses, and consequent complications.