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Connecting patients to doctors

Client

Funmi Olubajo, Idoma USA (http://www.idomausa.org/)
<fumybajo@gmail.com>

CS 5150 contact

If you are interested in this project, please contact:

Inalegwu Ochoche
iao5@cornell.edu
607-253-6540

Project

A large number of individuals in parts of the developing world do not have access to proper health care. There is an inadequate number of healthcare professionals, limited access to information, and drugs are scarce. This project aims to address the first and second challenges by linking the individuals with healthcare professionals.

We would like to create a web app which attempts to link patients with healthcare professionals through short message service (SMS). Willing healthcare professionals would register their contact details and their location and would receive messages from individuals with health problems who require information. The application would allow individuals with health issues send an SMS with a summary of their symptoms to the application which forwards the message to a healthcare professional who helps diagnose and suggests a line of treatment.

The client is not very rigid on implementation details which gives room to the team to innovate and suggest further functionality. It is a very practical project which would help a large number of individuals and we believe would be a very fun build.

java/JSP/servlets/ or PHP would be used with mysql. The SMS would be handled by a gateway which would be purchased by the client.