HospLine

No More Standing in Queues!

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Inspiration 🤖

  • Amidst the global pandemic, managing the crowd has been one of the prime challenges of the government and various institutions. That is where HospLine comes to the rescue. HospLine is a webapp that allows you to join a queue virtually which leads to no gathering hence lesser people in Hospitals that enables health workers to have the essentials handy.

  • During the pandemic, we have all witnessed how patients in need have to wait in lines to get themselves treated. This led to people violating social distancing guidelines and giving the opportunity for the virus to spread further.

  • We had an idea to implement HospLine that would help hospitals to manage and check-in incoming patients smoothly.

What it does 👨‍💻

  • You will have to fill in patient details in the given form and it will assign you a spot in the virtual queue.

  • On submitting the form, you'll be directed to a queue page where your position in the virtual queue will be displayed.

  • It will also inform you about the number of people ahead of you in the queue.

  • If someone ahead of you leaves the queue, then the data will be updated and displayed on your page in realtime.

  • This would be less time-consuming, safe for hospitals and you would ideally wait for your turn to come.

How we built it 🔨

  • The frontend part was built using HTML, CSS, and Javascript.

  • The backend was built using Flask and Postgresql as the database.

Challenges we ran into 😅

Building HospLine during a short period of time was a big challenge for us. Some of the challenges we ran into -

  • Integrating Flask with Postgresql so as to update, delete and fetch data in real-time was quite a task.

  • We were a team of two, so the workload was a lot.

Accomplishments that we're proud of ✨

We've worked hard to build the project during the hackathon and these are some of the achievements we're proud of -

  • We are glad to have implemented the idea of HospLine that we thought of at the beginning of the hackathon.

  • We made the real-time fetching and updating of the database successful.

What we learned ✅

  • We learned how to work as a team.

  • Learned how to review the other person's code.

  • Made utmost use of GitHub in sharing the code, which proved to be really helpful.

What's next for HospLine 💭

  • HospLine will add and registers Hospitals so it is easier to manage.

  • We are looking forward to integrating a Twilio API which will send reminders to the patient when it's their turn.

  • We will also add a simple facial recognition feature if the patient has already been to the hospital before.

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