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The patient will receive a unique identification code which we will then enter. He can also select the language based on his location.
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The patient can see his profile which contains all the important information related to his healthcare.
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Under appointments, he can see a list of all his past appointments and what the doctor diagnosed him with.
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After selecting a diagnosis, he can see the doctor's note as well a list of all alternative medicines he can buy for a much lower cost.
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Branding for our project
Inspiration
In India, there are a lot of cases of corruption in the medicine industry. Medicines are generally expensive and not accessible to people from financially backward households. As a result, there are many unnecessary deaths caused by lack of proper treatment. People who buy the medicines at high costs are generally caught in debt traps and face a lifetime of discomfort. Every year, the government spends 95 million CAD on medicines from private medical stores to provide it to ration shops in rural areas that sell it for cheap prices to poor people. However, private medical store owners bribe government hospital doctors to prescribe medicines which can only be found in private stores, thus causing a loss for the government and creating debt traps for the people.
What it does
Every medicine has an alternative to it. This is measure by the salts present in it. Our app provides a list of alternative medicines to every medicine prescribed by doctors to give patients a variety to choose from and go to ration stores who might have the alternative at cheaper prices. This information is retrieved from the data sets of medicines by the Medical Authority of India.
How we built it
We built the front end using Swift, Figma and Illustrator. For the backend, we used Google firebase and SQL for collecting information about medicines from official sources. We also used the Google Maps API and the Google Translate API to track the location of the patient and provide information in his own language/dialect.
Challenges we ran into
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are proud of coming up with an idea that solves problems for both the government and the patients by solving corruption. We are also proud of our ability to think of and create such an elaborate product in a restricted time frame.
What's next for Value-Med
If we had more time, we would have integrated Voiceflow as well for people who did not know how to read so that they could receive voice commands for navigating the application.
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