Digital Health Data

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Inspiration

We saw a website called aboutdigitalhealth.com that featured trending articles about digital health. We felt that we got more familiar with the concept of digital health as we read through the articles. This lit a lightbulb in our heads! We decided to replicate this feature in our own website using articles we found. As we read Josephine’s persona, we noticed that she didn’t have a problem with healthcare itself, but with technology being slowly integrated in healthcare as the world moves forward. To make this less of a scary concept, we linked articles that explain the pros of digital health and provide information. We also linked the emails of digital healthcare specialists using buttons.

What it does

Our website contains a home page that displays the two different categories that our website discusses. We tried to go for a friendly, and cozy looking design.

We included a prototype search bar which could be used to search up key terms and navigate through the site in the future.

To the right of that there is a ‘nav bar’ where users can click and go through the directory of the website. Each button leads to a different page.

Our first subpage is the “Articles” subpage, where the latest trending articles about digital health and robotic assistants will be displayed. We plan on updating this page weekly to keep users up to date about digital health, as well as display the pros and cons of this new age of healthcare.

Our second subpage is the “About Us” subpage, where we tell users our mission with the website and what we will be building towards in the future.

Our third subpage is the “Contact Doctors” subpage. This is the primary function of our website where we let users connect with specialists. We display doctors in the user’s region. In the future, we would like to ask the user to use their location to help them find specialists in their regions. We have a button function for each specialist, that allows users to directly contact the desired specialist through email.

Our fourth and final subpage contains a prototype “Sign Up” section where users can subscribe to our newsletter. This newsletter will update users with the latest information about digital healthcare and robotic assistants.

How we built it

Using the main coding languages used to make a website- html5, javascript, css3.

Each member in our team had a significant contribution towards this project.

Challenges we ran into

We ran into lots of challenges, mainly with the interactivity. Since the hackathon was held online, we had a hard time sharing ideas and communicating progress since we did not work together at the same pace. We also had difficulties distributing tasks because we all came from different coding backgrounds and knew different languages. In terms of using the DCL API, we did not have the technical knowledge to use it so we decided to not use it for our project.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We’re proud of being able to work together on a project despite our different coding experiences. Coming into this project, we were all beginners and have never done website development projects. Two of us didn’t even know how to use html or css. Despite that, we all learned new things which helped contribute to our website and made so much progress in the limited amount of time we had. Gaining knowledge and experience was probably the most important accomplishment for us.

What we learned

We improved a lot on different coding languages and got a better grasp on how front-end and back-end development is like.

In addition to that we learned how to work together on a coding project, using applications like GitHub.

We also learned what limitations in website development we currently have and what we need to work on in the future to become better developers.

We think everyone learned something valuable out of this that they can use in the future.

What's next for Digital Health Data

Improving interactivity.

There were a lot of functions that we could not fully flesh out such as the sign up page and the search bar. As we learn more about Javascript, we plan on implementing more user interactivity in the future.

We would also like to be able to connect with users more. At the end of the day, the website is meant to make users more familiar with digital healthcare. We would do this by asking users for their locations, so that we can cater our virtual doctors to the specific user.

A cool feature that we think would improve the articles pages is getting server data. Being able to index other websites opens many opportunities such as being given articles based on a certain keyword.