Millions of people die every year by succumbing to their wounds while waiting for a hospital bed availability. We felt like there had to be a change and so we came up with the idea of Healer.
Healer is a third-party website that displays live waiting times from the emergency room in hospitals and allows them to book a bed online. This enables the patient to make the best decision, reduce total waiting time and save lives.
For the technicalities behind our idea, we wrote the main code in JavaScript, CSS and HTML using the react framework to develop the front-end of our website. In the navbar we added four sections, with each section having their respective content.
Challenges we ran into
During the coding process, we ran into a lot of challenges. Since both my teammate and I were using react for the first time, it took us some time to understand the code and to design the elements with what we had pictured. This ranged from it b a button being in the top right, to simply changing its font-size. It was also our first time participating in hackathon, so we weren't all that familiar with VS Code and GitHub.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
I believe what we're most proud of is having a finished product. We overcame a lot of challenges to make this finished website and even though it might be a little basic compared to everyone else, it only opens a door way for my teammate and I to explore more in the coding world. We're also proud that we were able to implement the initial idea we had and did our best.
What we learned
We learned how to use React in web development. How to create functions and constants with JavaScript. How to debug a website properly using the inspect tab and all in all increased a programming language way more than we came with 24 hours ago.
What's next for Healer
Now that we've developed the front-end for Healer, all that's left is the back-end. We also want to make a login page separating clients and hospitals. This way hospitals can regularly update waiting times and room prices, ensuring for time management for patients and less crowds at hospitals.
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