MEDICAL AND HEALTH RESOURCE POOLING MOBILE APPLICATION USING RASPBERRY PI PANEL

Project Title

MEDICAL AND HEALTH RESOURCE POOLING MOBILE APPLICATION USING RASPBERRY PI PANEL

Project Area of Specialization Computer ScienceProject Summary

Today in this bustling life, finding a nearby specialized doctor or medical laboratories is strenuous. To get an outpatient appointment, one has to adopt the conventional way of making calls or paying a visit to the hospital which is laborious.For medical tests, people are unaware of the quality of tests as well as their cost or sometimes they have to face the issue of price variability at different laboratories as a trade-off for the quality of the test. In addition to that, in case of emergency, searching for an available nearby ambulance is one the hustling factor that is faced by current fast pace community, casualties are caused due to the late arrival of the ambulance and with more congested roads and insufficient information, the search and rescue operation becomes difficult.

Therefore, to ease the communication between healthcare service providers and the general community, we have proposed a resource pooling mobile application that will enable people to locate nearby medical and health resources, schedule appointments and hail ambulance in the hour of need.

Project Objectives

Following are the objectives we aim to achieve through this project:

• To develop a system that will enable on-time effective and easy communication between healthcare service providers and general community. 
• To develop a feature of locating specialist doctors and fix an out-patient appointment according to suitable time/date and as per doctor’s availability. 
• To develop a feature of locating medical laboratory with respect to prescribed test along with the details of test.
• To develop an ambulance hailing feature at user’s end and to develop a cloud-synced web interface using raspberry pi panel to cater ambulance request at driver’s end.

Project Implementation Method

To implement our project the hardware and the software we are using are:

Hardware:

1. Raspberry Pi:We are using raspberry pi which will control the functionalities of panel installed in ambulance. Ambulance service provider will be able monitor ambulance utilization.
2. LCD Panel :We are using a 5” LCD panel which will be placed inside the ambulance. It will make it easier for the driver to accept the request of the patient as well as it will also display patients location via map.
3. Gprs Module:We are using Gprs module for tracking the ambulance.

Software

1. Android Studio:For the development of our application.
2. Protoio: To design the prototype for the web interface of ambulance and user interface of the mobile application.
3. FluidUI: To design the prototype for the web interface for the hospital’s and laboratory’s administration.
4. Firebase: For the database. 
5. Visual Studio Code: We have used Visual studio code for the coding of our project.

Benefits of the Project

Following are the benefits of this project

• This is a commercial project which not only benefit general community but also government and private healthcare service providers as it will provide a channel of communication between them.
• It will be a benefit for general community as they will be able be to locate nearby specialist doctors and medical laboratories for their medical consultations and tests. Moreover, getting an out-patient appointment would not be a hectic task and in case of emergency hailing ambulance would be just one-tap away.
• It will ensure efficient ambulance service and will assist ambulance control authorities in collecting data related to the utilization of ambulance (like the number patients picked by an ambulance in a day) which will enable them to monitor and keep check and balance on their drivers.
•  This application will pave the way to the progress and promotion of Telehealth in Pakistan

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

Following are the final deliverables by our project:

• The user will be able to locate the available medical practitioners according to the speciality nearby his/her location .and can book an appointment depending on the availability 
• The user will be able to locate medical labs nearby his/her current location and book a test.
• The users can request a nearby available ambulance by just pressing the request button.

Final Deliverable of the Project Hardware SystemCore Industry HealthOther Industries IT Core Technology Big DataOther Technologies OthersSustainable Development Goals Good Health and Well-Being for People, Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, Peace and Justice Strong InstitutionsRequired Resources

Item Name	Type	No. of Units	Per Unit Cost (in Rs)	Total (in Rs)
			Total in (Rs)	16300
Raspberry PI Model 3B	Equipment	1	5500	5500
Raspberry PI Model 3B accessories	Equipment	1	800	800
5'inch LCD	Equipment	1	4500	4500
GPRS Module	Equipment	1	4000	4000
Printing	Miscellaneous	1	1500	1500