Carebot

Inspiration

Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, non-urgent healthcare services had reduced drastically and there is an increasing demand for remote outpatient solutions.

Over 7 million people live alone in the UK, and almost half of this population are seniors aged 65 or above. The vulnerable population was suggested to self-isolate, and their caregivers may not be able to reach them.

In light of this, we are building an app to check in daily with people who are self-isolating and living alone. Ideally, the app would contribute to the early detection of individuals with worsening symptoms for timely treatment.

To tackle the digital divide, daily check-ins are conducted through daily programmed phone calls.

How it works

1. Partnership with national healthcare system such as NHS/ opt-in subscribe to service

2. Daily programmed phone calls for daily check-in

3. Alert healthcare providers/ emergency services if no one answer the call after 3 rings at separate times in a day

Testing

Call +1 650-332-4721

Note: you can call international numbers for free using Google Hangouts ;)

How we built it

• Programmed phone calls using Dialogflow

• Back-end development using Firebase

Challenges we ran into

Not all of us have experience in chatbot development and we spent a lot of time learning the basics.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We built a functional prototype (in a short span of time)!

What we learned

We learnt a lot about using Dialogflow and backend development

What's next for Carebot

• Self-initiated phone calls at designated periods

• Web dashboard for healthcare providers

Built With

• dialogflow
• firebase
• google-cloud
• javascript
• node.js