Medical - MediQueue

MediQueue is a virtual queue application that allows patients to check in and check out of hospitals.

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Inspiration

My inspiration for this project is the tendency of medical facilities such as hospitals lacking in terms of technology, with this virtual automated queues app, we will be saving more lives by saving more time for healthcare workers to focus on the more important tasks.

What it does

It saves time for healthcare workers as it takes away a task that is usually time-consuming. On Mediqueue, you can check into your hospital on the app instead of in person. Essentially, you either don’t go to the hospital until it is your turn, or you stay into the car until you are next in line. This will not only make the check-in process for all hospitals easier and more convenient and safe. Allowing health care workers to focus on saving more people.

How I built it

We built it by creating 3 user interfaces in HTML and CSS. We created a welcome page, login page, and queue page with buttons and UI elements that allow the user to use the app without any difficulties. Our back end person linked all the pages to a server via flask. This means anything entered in the login form will be communicated to a database that is viewable to only the doctor. If the user decides to leave the hospital, he/she may press the leave button and their name will be removed from the database. Also, when the patient's appointment is done, the doctor manually removes their name from the list.

Challenges I ran into

Some challenges we ran into were completing the database queries required for the system. We also had trouble with creating the login form and making the queue list work effectively. Hosting the website on Heroku was quite a challenge as well.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

We were able to work as a big team of 4 to complete a web app within a short time frame by assigning roles and most importantly, communicating with each other.

What I learned

We learned how to work efficiently as a group and the benefits of cooperative programming.

What's next for MediQueue

We will give each hospital that signs up for our program a unique code, such that the link for the patient to sign up to only checks them into their hospital. We also hope to integrate AI to make it easier for people to log in, maybe by simply taking a picture or scanning their insurance card. Finally, we will also create a separate interface in which doctors can log in and see all the people in line instead of having to pull it from the program.

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