Inspiration
Everyone has waited way too long to get care in an emergency room. In fact it's the single biggest complaint when it comes to urgent care. It's called an emergency room for a reason and no one should have to wait to get the care that they Deserve.
What it does
The Web app takes hospital wait times from nearby hospitals and sorts them by the hospitals with the least amount of wait time.
How I built it
We created our own API that takes constantly updating information about nearby hospital wait times. We used Python as a back end to access the JSON from the API to output to an HTML file.
Challenges I ran into
Our original idea of coding in JAVA was not supported by our API, meaning we had to quickly switch gears to use Python as out back end in order to get the API data. Python is also difficult to work with as a web app back end, and even as documented as Flask is, it was an entirely new concept to us.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
being able to create our own API to get data from a source was incredibly inspiring for us. flask and Python were also new concepts to us and being able to effectively use Python as a back end for HTML was out greatest accomplishment.
What I learned
We learned how little documentation there is for Hospitals and how much room for improvement there in order to save lives.
What's next for MyER
Building an actual app in order to increase inconvenience as well as make MyER a reliable tool in order to get help quickly.
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