Medical Camp Registration App
Using technology to help serve and solve real problems.
I was fortunate enough to volunteer at a free medical camp in 2024. During this experience, I recognized the inefficiencies in the patient registration system. The system at camp only worked with Wi-Fi, which was often unreliable or unavailable in the rural areas we served. Additionally, since many camps have a lack of printers and tablets, patients had to fill out paper forms by hand and carry their forms while they visited different doctors. As volunteers, we would type up their forms and then store it in our secure database to handover to the county. As a result, patients were forced to wait under the sweltering sun or relentless rain for long hours while we manually entered their forms, delaying critical care.
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Motivated to find a solution, I leveraged my background in computer science to develop a streamlined registration system upon returning home. I created a web application using Flask that could operate offline, allowing volunteers to scan forms using their phones or tablets. Utilizing Google Vision, the app turned handwritten text into digital records that would be uploaded to the web UI. Volunteers could review the information scanned, edit if necessary, and then securely store patient data in a database. Tables were also dynamically created through the UI and are based off of location. Camps are a few times a year and at maximum, we were seeing about 2,000 patients daily, so this system didn't need to scale heavily.
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Technologies used: Python3, Flask, Google Vision, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQLite, and Offline Storage.