Kair | Devpost

The Value We're Providing
The Problem We've Identified
The Technology Solution We're Providing
Our Logo
Our Web Application
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Ideation and Development Process

The team brought unique perspectives and skill-sets to this hackathon. An experienced data analyst who has worked with the CDC, a developer who specializes in back-end, a web-developer who designed the UI/UX, and a seasoned hackathon participant who helped in front-end design, lead the ideation phase, and developed the Kair branding.

We began with an interest in the healthcare field, specifically the pain points that are felt by nurses who work in hospitals. We interviewed several nurses during the hackathon and spoke to two mentors present at the hackathon to narrow our focus for the project. We discovered the connection between patient satisfaction and burn-out among the nurses. If nurses have the ability to devote more of their energy towards patient care, rather than administrative work (charting), this will have a positive impact on the patient's experience at the hospital.

Development required constant communication between all members. Everyone had a specialized role, and in many scenarios the team was cross functioning. Whether we were debating on UI elements, or debugging the speech-to-text model. It was truly a group effort to develop Kair.

Please continue reading to learn more about the process that led to the creation of Kair.

The Problem

33,679,935 patients visited hospitals in the United States in 2023. According to the National Library of Medicine (NIH), almost 40% of respondents had a poor experience at their most recent hospital visit.Source Nurses spend a significant amount of time filling out repetitive information in patient charts, which could be better utilized in patient care activities. This issue not only impacts the efficiency of nursing staff but also results in poor experiences for patients of the hospital. There is potential to leverage health data analytics to derive insights from patient data, leading to better patient care outcomes.

Inspiration

We interviewed several nurses during the hackathon over the phone to determine what their pain points are. Burn-out is a major concern in the world of nursing, which was reaffirmed by our interviewees. The burn-out nurses feel directly impacts the quality of care patients receive in the hospital.

What it does

We have developed a web application that enables nurses to allocate more resources toward patient care rather than administrative work. Patients will receive a higher-quality experience while reducing the burnout experienced by nurses. To accomplish this, we streamlined the charting process for nurses by introducing intelligent speech-to-text technology to speed up the charting process and implemented data analytics to provide immediate diagnosis recommendations.

How we built it

Kair incorporates a number of technologies, programming languages, and our own research in the healthcare field to build the final product. Python, R, HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript with BootStrap 5, and are the languages we used. Microsoft Excel, R Studios and Kaggle.com was used for data research and analysis. Adobe Creative Cloud was used to design the logos. We collaborated and hosted our code on GitHub.

Challenges we ran into

Completing the puzzle: the front-end, back-end, voice-to-text model, and data took a considerable amount of time to combine into a functioning application that we could demo.

We originally went with the name ChartEase, but after speaking to mentors we concluded that our product name did not properly recognize the value we are providing to patients receiving care from nurses. Kair recognizes the positive effects our platform has for both nurses and patients.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Speaking with mentors at the hackathon and interviewing nurses with specific knowledge of our problem statement allowed us to develop a product that is not only technically sound, but relevant to the issue at hand.

What we learned

We have gained a new perspective on the healthcare field, specifically nurses and the relationship between nurses and their patients. It is imperative that nurses have the ability to maximize patient-care and minimize the amount of paperwork, administrative work that has to be done.

What's next for Kair

There is a significant amount of research that must be done in the industry to determine how this solution could apply to the daily workflow of nurses in hospitals of all sizes.