Project Proposals

I propose to monitor a patient's vitals (blood pressure, heart rate and pulse) using readily available technologies such as Fitbit (Cost per device = $30). We can talk about an app (platform agnostic via HTML5/PhoneGap) that collects the information from the patients' fitbit device and forwards it to the patients medical records on file. CardioVascular Diseases (CVDs) are very individualistic in the sense that due to the nature of the disease and the patients historical background, a specific mix of drugs in a specific dosage might work for one patient but not another. Our system allows doctors to measure patients' vitals constantly while they adjust patients diet/treatments/drugs and dosage on a continuous basis. This can happen without the need to call the patient every few days or so for various tests to understand how the medication/dosage is performing. The system can have backend database that collects and records all patient data. The data is exposed via a frontend created using platform agnostic framework (Abdallah mentioned Bootstrap in the first meeting. That should serve well for this purpose). The data is only available through devices whose MAC addresses are registered into the system. Doctors are made to create an account on the System that allows them to monitor their patients only. We can keep a full medical history of the patient along with the data collected presented in a manner easy to understand for the doctors. (This should serve as the basis for a few use cases). The data is also shown in a geo-localized manner so that if a device is inside the designated institution (hospital), it shows full patient data. Otherwise, it hides critical patient-identifying information (and assign a random number that the doctor alone recognizes). The system can also show staff schedules of the staff in the department where the system is deployed as well as other doctors, their profiles and if they're accepting new patients or open to referrals (and if so, then their specialized interest of referrals). Scalability Concerns: Fitbit is a commercial device and is available anywhere in Canada. The cost is cheap so people can buy it. The app can be made available freely with the system so that the number of patients getting this service can be scaled, (once the system is in place). An API for the app can be created so that other information via other devices can also be sent to the patients medical records. The app simply only records and sends data to the right patient record so it's very minimalistic. The right patient record is determined by generating a unique random key assigned to a fitbit device. The patient can buy or be provided with the fitbit device, the system will register the device and assign it a unique id. The id is added to the app to send the data collected under that id.

We can always remove features from this idea if it becomes too much.