Team-Stella| Planet, With People

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Local Peoples' Choice Winner

Planet, With People

Your challenge is to build on the Human Planet Initiative of the Group on Earth Observations to apply new methods for mapping attributes of human populations. How can Human Planet data from NASA and other sources be used to improve or update maps or other information important to a problem that concerns you? Design or create a tool or service to accomplish this.

Medseek: Find the Perfect Hospital for You

Summary

Medseek is an app that shows and compares the distinct features of nearby hospitals. In the case of an emergency, this app will help users choose the appropriate hospitals according to their preferences. With Medseek, we expect to limit the tumult that happens in medical clinics. Each time an individual enters a health care center, a QR code will be given by the machines set in the entrances. When a person receives a QR code or has their code scanned by the machine before leaving, the change in the number of people at specific hospitals will be recorded and reflected on our app.

How We Addressed This Challenge

Healthcare is one of the most basic needs of a human being. There is no inhabited place on earth without a healthcare system. So managing these systems and informing people about them is directly connected to this concept. For that matter, we decided to develop an app, using the data of human population distribution, especially at and around hospitals, to better inform people about which hospital might be of best service to them. What we hope to achieve is helping this “planet with people” to have better, faster and more efficient healthcare systems.

How We Developed This Project

Medseek is an app we developed after reminiscing on shared experiences. All of our team members had in one way or another encountered distasteful situations, such as shortage of personnel or emergency rooms filled to the brim with people, which were essentially caused by the ineffective identification of overcrowded hospitals. Our aim is to minimize this chaos by detecting overcrowded health care centers using the app we designed and ensuring that people get treated in the safest and quickest way possible. To achieve this we utilized Java, Adobe XD, Android Studio, React Native and Google Map Libraries. None of us had any serious experience of coding or hackathons and figuring out how to program the app was likely what we spent the most time on.

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

We based our project on a city-scale and therefore the use of space agency data was less to write algorithms and more to educate ourselves on certain topics related to our challenge. We utilized the data from partner agencies to create graphs which would then help us determine our path.

Project Demo

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of-ljhZ3WHY

Additional presentation (originally prepared for local judging): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOeQiZKHgnA

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Tags
#healthcare #app #sustain #hospitals #map #emergencyservices
Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Judging process.