Inspiration

The health industry challenge got us thinking about prescriptions, how unreliable our current system is and how we lack the ability to track a patient's history. Tracking medical history is often crucial in recognizing the signs and symptoms of a medical condition.

What it does

Provides a user access to their current prescriptions and prescription history. Allows user to authenticate their doctors, nurses and pharmacists using a QR code. This gives the patient autonomy over their own data.

How we built it

Mobile application (Flutter) : Allows patient to view own history, print out prescriptions, etc. Web application (HTML/CSS/JS) : Doctor or pharmacist will generate a QR code. Patient scans the QR code, authenticating the professional, and the professional will be automatically redirected to user's profile (after first use, the professional will remain authenticated until user removes authorization). Doctor can then fill out prescription, which can be accessed by patient and pharmacist. Database (Firebase): Database to contain user accounts - three account types: Medical professional (can write prescriptions), Pharmaceutical professional (can fill prescriptions) and Patient (administrator, accesses their own history and who has access to it)

Challenges we ran into

Choosing the right database structure. Communicating virtually is also a barrier.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Potentially an integrated system that would change how medical data is approached.

What we learned

It is worth taking the time to think of an idea worth doing. This was not the idea we originally were going to go with.

What's next for Pocket Prescription

We implemented basic requirements. We plan to continue the project, the next step being researching security methods.

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