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About the project

Tap2Heal is aimed to simplify the tracking process of prescription medication through NFC technology allowing patients to log their prescription through a single tap of their phone.

Inspiration

Have you ever used contactless payments in restaurants or retail? With a few clicks, you can tap and pay immediately. We took inspiration from this, specifically their use of NFC chips, and applied it to MedTech to track pills.

When someone gets prescribed high-risk medication for the first time, it can be hard to adjust to a new lifestyle of taking pills multiple times a day. With Tap2Heal, we hope to make this process more convenient and seamless.

What it does

In collaboration with General Practitioners (GPs), GPs can input a patient’s prescription data onto Tap2Heal’s site. This allows them to write data onto a NFC sticker, which will be given to the patient by the GP. The patient can then paste this sticker onto their pill bottles.

When the app notifies the patient to take their pill, the patient can simply tap their phone onto the NFC sticker. Tap2Heal will then automatically track their pill intake without any other user input needed.

The app also uses dynamic scheduling to provide a flexible pill intake schedule for patients. The NFC stickers allow patients to view reliable information about their prescriptions on their phone, for example, an optimized schedule of when to take pills and steps to take after missing a dose.

How we built it

We conducted thorough research on medtech to identify problems and gaps in the market. Using our findings, we constructed user profiles and user flow diagrams to ideate the structure of our app / proposed solution. After that, we made sketches and wireframes to illustrate our idea and went through a number of iterations to finalize the User interface of Tap2Heal using figma

Challenges we ran into

Trying to visualize the flow and design of merging NFC technology and med-tracking together. Since it is a novel idea, there are not a lot of existing designs and illustrations we can use as components or inspiration. Therefore, we had to build the app from scratch. A lot of time was taken up by iterations as each iteration required refining both user interfaces while considering the technical implementation.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We believe that our solution would be helpful in real-world applications. Using NFC stickers in prescription intake tracking provides a more convenient way to track pills.

What we learned

We learned about the importance of having an iterative process for our designing as we found it was much more productive to iterate over a rough design and review and test it every 30 minutes than having one person focusing on one segment bringing it all the way into high fidelity.

What's next for Tap2Heal

When there are serious consequences for missing a pill, the app can notify emergency contacts Integrate with smartwatches and other wearable devices Track heart rate and other data to better recommend notification times