Health Mate | Devpost

💡 Inspiration

The need to give greater weight to patients’ own assessments of treatment impacts is increasingly accepted in principle. Putting it into practice will require a lot of hard work, developing tools that work for specific conditions and treatments, are easy to use, and command an international consensus.

Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) use patients’ own assessments of their quality of life, capturing subjective experience through questionnaires. They have long been used in clinical practice and research to monitor patients during treatment, looking to measure physical symptoms, psychological problems, and general quality of life.

(PROMs) support patient-clinician communication and subsequent care processes and outcomes in clinical care. (1) PROMs completion prompts a process of self-reflection and supports patients to raise issues with clinicians and (2) PROMs scores raise clinicians’ awareness of patients’ problems and prompt discussion and action.

🤳 What it does

The 3 major reasons why people tend to not fill PROM forms are - lack of time, lack of tech skills, and lack of motivation. We counter all of these problems using HealthMate. Healthmate converts these questionnaires into google actions so that people can easily answer them by talking to their smart home devices like Google Nest, Alexa (for the future), or even to their Android phones. The way this solves all of the above-mentioned issues is-

Lack of time - People can answer these questions on the go (while commuting, cooking, or relaxing on their bed) without having to spare time specifically for it. The questionnaires can also be answered partially at one time and then can be resumed later.
Lack of tech skills - Since no access to a computer or any complicated device is needed, patients can start answering the questions by invoking the HealthMate action by speaking a single word.
Lack of will - Here's where things get really interesting since the data collected from these questionnaires can be shared with insurance companies and hospitals and doctors, in an anonymized form, they can be asked to give patients different vouchers, discounts on meds, etc in exchange for frequently filling these forms.

We also developed a dashboard for healthcare professionals who can monitor each patient's health and symptoms. This way they can recommend better medications and treatments.

⚙️ How we built it

We built it using the google action platform. We used Dialogflow for creating various intents and firebase for saving user's responses. We deployed functions on google-cloud and used Flask and charts.js to build the dashboard and the plots.