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Inspiration

We were inspired to make this site due to people who get sick but have to trouble themselves to get medication by visiting a doctor’s office even though they are feeling unwell. Furthermore, from our past experiences of how long the wait for walk-in doctors is and the extensive wait from booking an appointment, we believe that patients should get medical attention immediately when needed. This inspired us to make Send2Cure as we want to provide sick individuals with an accessible and convenient way to receive medical care.

What it does

Sent2Cure is a website which allows users experiencing mental or physical issues to receive medical advice and help in an accessible and convenient way. Our site can do so by asking users to select one or more issues that they’re currently facing during the signup process. Additionally, users can pick between a pediatrician and a doctor which the users will be able to further select. Users can then search between doctors or pediatricians in a generated list whose specialization will be listed along with their name, type, and profile. Users can then converse with the selected pediatrician or doctor on various issues they are facing in which the specialist can decide whether or not they want to prescribe medication. Users are then to have medication sent by Sent2Cure directly to their address. Our site does not collect any personal data other than the user’s name, email, and address.

How we built it

We built this site using C#, ASP.NET, and MariaDB. We used MariaDB to store and access users’ account information, prescribed medication designated to each patient, and messages between the patient and the doctor in question.

Challenges we ran into

As a team, we faced many hardships as a group and as individuals. However, we were able to overcome these challenges which ultimately taught us how to approach situations from different perspectives and build vital life skills such as collaboration, resilience and hard work in less than 3 days. To start off, the team had trouble deciding on a software product. Our ideas went through multiple stages of revision, which caused some of us to feel demotivated and frustrated since we had little time. However, this dilemma helped them enhance their collaborative skills. As a result of this, we were able to overcome this challenge and come up with Sent2Cure. Another challenge that we encountered was not having in-person real-time help. We had issues running our code system which led to a delay in the coding and a delay in the overall final product. Since we weren’t working together in person, having issues on our computers and wifi network were difficult to solve but as a team, we were able to resolve these issues by being patient with one another and of course teamwork.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

As a team, we got to learn problem-solving, how to enhance our code and how to improve our skills. Most of our team did not have a great background with these languages yet, but while working together as a team and problem solving, we got to learn what went wrong and what we got to improve on. Members of our team now have more confidence in their skills in coding and web development.

What we learned

We learned that in order to succeed we had to persevere and stay organized. We learned how to push through the little hours of sleep, how to quickly learn a new language and how to demo and sell our software. We learned this through the skills we gained from the hackathon such as confidence, networking, and learning from the guest speakers. We also learned a lot about APIs (the client interacts with the server using APIs) and SQL, which we used to store accounts and messages.

What's next for Sent2Cure

Since we believe that Sent2Cure is a site that is crucial and much-needed in today’s society to tackle the plan to keep running this site even after this hackathon. We plan to add new features which will allow users to more effectively filter users and find the most ideal person to talk to, all while preserving user privacy. We also hope to add a call feature where patients can communicate with the specialist through video or voice calls.