The characteristics of our project

Our project will be a product for the market and will be used by ordinary users for their health related needs.

Our team doesn't have a significant experience about the domain. Hence we need extra research to improve the functionalities of the project

The project can be considered quite innovative although there are utilities to search for health institutions, there is no mobile application that connects hospitals and the patients.

Introduction

Problem Description

Although most people have their own doctors for the cases that they go frequently like dentists, gynecologists; there are a lot of situations that you can suffer an illness for the first time and you need to go to a quality hospital to see a trusty doctor. Moreover it can just be an emergency situation when you are not at your neighbourhood and you need to go to the nearest health institution. In this kind of situations it’s pretty hard to decide where to go and which doctor to see. Moreover you don’t know if there is the field you have to see in that hospital. Even though there is, you don’t know which doctor to choose and when is the nearest date available for the doctor to have an appointment.

If we consider that people are becoming more and more mobile in these times and health is the number one priority for most of the people, there is a need for an assistance utility to direct people.

Proposed Solution

People would benefit a location based mobile application to see the health institutions around and contact them via the application if necessary.

First of all is the case when it’s an emergency. In this situation the user does not care about anything but the nearest emergency service. Hence according to the user’s location, the nearest emergency service and the shortest path will be shown on the map. Estimated time to go there by foot and by car will also be shown.

The other case is when the user is looking for the best option to go when he has an illness. He can see the hospitals, the departments of those hospitals and the doctors at each department. He can see when the doctor is available and request an appointment.

To choose the hospital and the doctor, he can see the comments and ratings of other users and can leave a comment and give rating himself.

Moreover, the user can filter the hospitals according to his insurance. That is, he can choose to see opportunities where his insurance company covers the expenses.

On the other hand, the user can keep track of his status via the application. For example, he will be able to see his test results, comments of his doctor and his next appointment date or any kind of reminders.