Compass Care

Inspiration

We often heard complaints from my peers and relatives about how slow and inefficient the waiting times are for clinic visits. Gloria: As a pharmacy student, I was also inspired by how the PSS played a role in combating misinformation during the pandemic in 2020. These two ideas helped to shape the core features of our app in helping to make healthcare less obscure to the general public.

What it does

Our main aim is to develop an app that is accessible to all users, with key features provided that can improve their experience and the quality of care they receive. For example, our features include symptom checkers, live consultation, keeping track of all their medical records, synchronising health data, list of locations of institutions nearby (with their waiting time) and medication plan/history. We hope this app can provide users with a more personalised and efficient approach to healthcare services.

How we built it

We used Cogniss Creator and App to create a basic framework for the mobile application and test out the userflow. Although we were limited when it comes to implementing certain specific features (for example, enabling a messaging channel between user and their healthcare consultant), we did our best to make use of Cogniss to accommodate our feature ideas.

Challenges we ran into

It was difficult to choose just a few aspects to focus on and select ones that hadn't already been incorporated into other apps. As none of our members had experience with working in healthcare yet, we also found it hard to visualise problems from a provider standpoint and instead opted to hear the sentiment from the ground to identify areas the general population felt could be improved.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud to have come this far with our idea within just a few weeks. Initially, we weren't sure which direction to go towards and felt a mobile application would be too simple and shallow. But after more research and discussion, we managed to narrow down our problem statement to some key pain points that people do face when navigating the current healthcare system.

What we learned

While we did learn some technical skills (such as using Cogniss and Canva editing), we also did learn how it's important to find a specific target problem and to re-iterate on our solution to meet the user's needs accordingly. For instance, one of our goals is to make healthcare more streamlined for users and to make this possible, we had to search up on existing gaps in the system and further discuss ways we will be able to address the few key gaps where applicable. While there are probably more and better ways to address these issues, we did our best to make our solution more accessible and efficient for our user.

What's next for Compass Care

If possible, we plan to integrate into the wider healthcare ecosystem. We are currently aware of how there are 3 different healthcare clusters each with their own separate app. This app serves to be a central platform for all 3 with the essentials such as patient data and allow for comprehensive patient records regardless of which healthcare institution one visits.

Built With

• canva
• cogniss