Heath On The Go

Health on the Go app for AngelHack Hackathon


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Problem

In areas without mobile data, how can health care professionals access patient data

Solution

A patient record system which authorised users (Health Care Workers) could query using SMS

Our MVP

A Rails Application that medical staff can sign into, input patient information and input medical information
The Doctor or Health Care worker can also query this data through SMS (using Twilio) and receive an immediate update

Further Features

Ability to digitise current records
Ability to add to patient records through SMS

Why should this idea win?

Better Outcomes for Patients - Lack of access to their history and medical data affects treatment chances of patients considerably. Removing this barrier could increase their chances of recovery.

Eliminate Pain Point for Rural Doctors - Having access to patient history and patient test results in real time give Health Care professionals a better understanding of the most effective treatment to administer.

Better Understanding of Health Care trends - With more effective data collection, more in depth analysis about community health and trends can be done.

Fundability

The market for this is in communities which have mobile signal but do not have access to mobile internet
Patient data can be anonymised and used for research projects
Could also be funded through community health projects and charities keen on improving global access to healthcare
It could be a sustainable business model as it could be provided as SaaS with a monthly fee

Execution

We focused on building an MVP which incorporates some of the most important features
- Medical professionals can sign in with their credentials and create/update medical records for each patient.
- Medical records are stored on a database.
- Medical professionals can query the data by sending a text to the Twilio number with the patient's name.
Technology used: Ruby on Rails, Twilio API

UI/UX

We spoke to a doctor in Nigeria who highlighted the difficulties he has with treating patients in rural areas. The things we had to take into account:
- Limiting queries to only vital information so that length of texts can be kept short
- Ease of use for patient information input from admin teams
- Ease of use in querying the data

Originality

While leaps have been made in the rural healthcare space, such as tele-health (which allows rural doctors to communicate with specialists to obtain a better diagnosis), there has been little done to improve recording and accessing patients' data in rural areas.
Implements a solution where mobile data/internet is not required. Users only need a basic phone with ability to send and receive messages.

Scalability

While we would focus on one small community to test out our concept, this can be expanded to other rural communities easily.

Impact