Cortex

Inspiration

The American healthcare system is unnecessarily convoluted, and despite the massive amount of recent technological advances, doctors lack the long term data they need, and patients lack the clarification they sometimes require from doctors about medical procedures.

What it does

Cortex is a web app that aims to simplify interactions between doctors and patients. It allows doctors to view patients' daily health data. It also allows them to send their patients direct messages, and schedule and log appointments. Patients can upload their daily health data and view their doctor's messages, as well as a log of their appointments.

How we built it

• Brainstormed concepts
• Decided on a main idea and several features
• Created baseplate UI with no functionality
• Separated projects to work in parallel (added functionality)
• Cleaned up the project ## Challenges we ran into During our progress in making this app, we encountered many challenges for a variety of reasons. First, the biggest challenge was coming up with a viable idea, as there is such a multitude of possible projects in the health care field. Second, many features we thought would be easy and fast to implement turned out to be a frustrating struggle instead. Namely: implementing a fast authentication system that could distinguish different types of clients and implementing web push notifications, which we were not able to finish. We also encountered difficulties with the tools we used, due to our unfamiliarity with them. ## Accomplishments that we're proud of
• It works!
• We properly implemented a commenting system that updates live
• We have a working, secure authentication system that differentiates between different types of clients ## What we learned
• Became familiar with using Firebase for authentication, database, and push notifications
• Learned a lot about the Typescript programming language and the Vue web framework
• How to build a website from scratch in a short frame of time and present our idea ## What's next for Cortex Just because Cortex can be run on servers does not mean it is anywhere near its full potential. Some possible improvements that can be made in the future are include:
• Integrating Google Fit for patient health data
• Allowing patients to schedule visits
• Regular medication reminders for patients
• Allowing doctors and patients to directly chat back and forth
• Allowing doctors to use ML to double check diagnoses based off medical scans ... and so much more

Built With

• firebase
• netlify
• typescript
• vue