Hygia

Redefining delivery of Healthcare Solutions Seamlessly ⚕️

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Inspiration

Remember going to the doctor’s office and having to fill a tedious form before getting checked up? Well with our application the form will be sent to your doctor’s office previously before attending the clinic. This has several benefits including saving time for both the patient and staff at the doctor’s office. Also, if you aren’t native to a country or have hard time understanding and filling forms out; via digital you have the time to take help from others when filling the form out.

A huge part of our target audience are elderly people, so they were considered in the design of the product. We used the following practice to make this work:

Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines recommend that buttons be at least 9.6mm when measured diagonally (44 x 44 pixels on an iPad)

Overall, color contrast should be increased in websites and apps that cater to older adults.

Research

https://ask.metafilter.com/360492/Tools-to-Automate-filling-in-medical-forms-from-the-patient-side https://www.cureus.com/articles/101576-interfacing-with-the-electronic-health-record-ehr-a-comparative-review-of-modes-of-documentation https://www.toptal.com/designers/ui/ui-design-for-older-adults

What it does

We wanted to tackle these three features:

  1. Monitor a patient's vital signs (like the ones monitored with a smart watch) and send reports (in PDF) to a doctor, hospital or healthcare worker. A user can also download their own reports at any given time. Reports can be sent as frequently as needed; daily, weekly, etc.

  2. Utilize home screen shortcuts to allow a user call for help in one click. So one can assign a phone number to a button and put it on the home screen. Then when it's clicked, it immediately calls the assigned number.

  3. Collect user medical info on the app, and send the data to the user's hospital of choice for records. The data van also be sent to another hospital or paramedics team during emergencies. This would also reduce how much time is spent filling forms in the ER.

How we built it

We built it with CockroachDB (for patient data), Firebase Authentication (for user authentication), DeSo (notification integration when PDF is sent over), React Native and JavaScript (for our frontend and interaction), all with the help of Expo! Image

Challenges we ran into

  1. We had started coding very late - about 12 hours in - because we were still in the planning stage

  2. Our UX/UI designer was facing power outages in his location, so he couldn't contribute as frequently as he could, but still covered the fundamentals of our mobile designs 📱🎨

  3. Our PM was moving out of his dorms for several hours 🧳

  4. We had to swap team members midway due to time constraints 🔄

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're proud of making further progress in our mobile development skills.

What we learned

  1. We learned how to read documentation: https://rnfirebase.io/ and https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/react-typescript-cockroachdb-sample-app/

  2. We learned how to use SVGs to the best of our ability: https://svg2jsx.com/ and https://react-svgr.com/playground/?native=true

  3. We learned how to transfer Figma CSS to React inline-styling: https://casbin.org/CssToAndFromReact/

What's next for Hygia

We want to deliver this to the app store and hospitals close to us!

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