Designing With Web - Part 3: week 1

Context

When you are in a foreign country, it can be difficult to access your personal health data and share it with the health care workers in the country if there is a problem. This is why an application containing our medical file in several languages could be useful. This service is not intended to be lucrative, it will be financed by the European Union with the aim of improving the mobility of its citizens between Member States.

Target

The target population is actually very large since all you need is a smartphone to benefit from this application. Obviously, the public interested in this application will certainly be a public that travels relatively regularly.

Service offered

The service offered is therefore an application that would contain our personal health data. The idea is that these data are extremely well protected by an encryption system. It will therefore be possible for a user to enter his medical data: he would enter basic data such as blood group, allergies, possible illnesses such as diabetes or people to contact in emergency situations. The doctors consulted by the user would be able to fill in a small summary sheet at the end of each consultation, as well as related official documents such as prescriptions or X-rays. This will essentially do two things. Firstly, a doctor consulted abroad will be able to consult this history and thus better refine his diagnosis. Secondly, it would allow a pharmacy to take into account foreign prescriptions (only doctors with a certified account could enter prescriptions into the application). These two services would work on the principle of QR Codes which would be scanned by pharmacies or doctors and would give direct access to the patient's medical record translated into the language.

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Benchmark

• DMP: “Dossier médical partagé”
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  There is a French application that resembles what we want to offer, it was set up by the health insurance company and is called DMP: “Dossier médical partagé”. Despite its good potential, it is extremely poorly rated, particularly by health professionals. They insist on the fact that to use this application, they have to go through outdated medical software which wastes a lot of time. We intend to design an application that is more autonomous.
• Doctissia
  There is also the Doctissia application, which is rather intuitive, and which proposes the idea of a medical file on a mobile phone. However, it is not very widespread, which explains why doctors and pharmacists are reluctant to use it; moreover, the international character via translation and the simplicity of a QR code are not offered by the application.

Other applications offer medical monitoring but more on a personal level, it is not really about communicating with health professionals and bringing an international dimension.

References

• App store
• Google store
• DMP Website created by the french health care system in order to present the “shared medical file”
• Applications in the health field Article from the French newspaper « Le Figaro » that presents 7 innovative apps in the medical field
• Benefits of these apps Article from the « Haute autorité de Santé » that presents opportunities linked with the development of connected device for health improvement

Context

We realized that a lot of people do not know what to do when they face an emergency. Indeed, do you really know what to do if someone faint in front of you? Do you know what to do if someone choke in front of you or if someone get burned? We are sure that you hesitate and do not know what you must do and what you absolutely must not do. Our app wants to make people capable of acting fastly and properly when then face an emergency, this in only a few clicks.

Target

This app is for everyone. If you do not now anything about first aid actions of course you need our app. But even if you think that you know what to do when you face an emergency we strongly recommend you to use it, why? First, because in a panic situation you can get flustered and forget what to do. And also because we have other helpful options like for example a geolocation that will allow you to call the closest emergency service and give them your location so that they can find you easily. Moreover, you will have access to useful information about what are the emergency services near to you and how to contact them or what are the procedures if you want to be cared by them for something less urgent. So, to put it in a nutshell, this app is for everyone who wants to take care of the other and of itself.

Service offered

The app will be simple, refined and clear because when we face an emergency we have to go straight to the point and to act fastly. On the first page when you open the app you will have a list of the major emergencies faced in the country you are (thanks to geolocation) so that if you are facing one of these you can click on it directly. Moreover, you will have a search bar on the top of the page where you can search keywords if you do not see in the suggestions the emergency you are facing. Then, when you click on your problem, you will have the key information. You will have some videos or images to tell you what these emergencies are and what you must do. It will also tell you what you absolutely should not do. In addition, you will have a button to call the right emergency services based on your problem and your location (The location will be also helpful for the emergency services which will find you easily). There will be also other services on our app. For example, you will be able to see all the emergencies services in the vicinity thanks to your geolocation in order to have information about the opening hours, the procedures to be taken care, … so you will know what to do if you have a problem less urgent.

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