Madhacks2

Inspiration

There are many instances when EMT's are not able to act freely, due to incomplete information. Suppose an EMT wants to administer a drug, to which the patient is allergic to, then the patient might go into anaphylactic shock. Through this app, EMTs can click a picture of the patient and in seconds retrieve the basic medical profile of the patient, which can be used to accordingly alter treatment and first aid.

What it does

It uses an Android app to take a patients photo and sends the photo to the whatson API. The name of the patient is parsed from the result and send it to the epic API. We retrieve the medical record of the patient and display it on the android device. It clicks a picture of someone snf Uses that picture file to get a patient's history, including allergy to drugs or foods, medical history.

How we built it

We used android studio to create a front end application that takes photos of patients. In the back end we used Java to communicate with the whatson and epic API's and retrieve the patients medical records. The result was displayed on the android phone.

Challenges we ran into

Lack of documentation of whatson api. Limited number of access keys in Whatson API.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

It can serve to larger section of the population and help in traumatic incidents.

What I learned

Programming in android studio, using API's, editing a video, implementing two API's (Watson and Epic) in the app, integrating front end and back end.

What's next for Madhacks2

More creative projects!

Built With

• android-studio
• java
• restful-api