Project Description
Oral Immunotherapy (OIT) is an emerging strategy for tackling severe food allergies, and has received attention for its success with small children who suffer from severe reactions to peanuts. However, it takes a lot of patience and documentation.
Patients must take a daily dose of peanut solution, which slowly increases over the course of the year. They need to document the time, and refrain from exercising for more than 2 hours afterwards.
I’d like to build a voice app (Alexa) that 1. reminds children to take their daily dose, 2. documents the time of dose everyday, 3. Includes a timer that children can query about how long they need to refrain from exercising, and 4. encourages children to keep up their ‘work’.
Goals
– automatically provide documentation for parents (which they can pass on to an allergist)
– encourage children to keep up their doses every day.
Constraints
Children who can’t read should be able to seamlessly interact with it.
Impact
OIT is an emerging strategy that is rapidly gaining in popularity. A specialized app would be great.
Resources
Depending on the direction it went, we might need to purchase something like an Echo Dot.
Group Summary
Essentially the customer would like us to make an application that reminds children to take a dose of medicine in order to help cure their peanut (or other) allergies. It should also document dosage and time dose was taken as well as any other metrics that might be considered useful. The customer would like this to be compatible with Amazon’s Alexa – specifically using it as a way to remind the child when to dose and how much to dose. The customer would like this app to be usable for a child that cannot read.
Identified Pains
Making this app accessible for those who cannot read.
Creating physician quality documentation could be difficult – we would need to consult with a doctor to see what their forms generally look like.
Any complications in the application could easily lead to patient DEATH.
Proposed Problem Description
Create a voice capable application to aid parents in properly dosing and recording their child’s treatment plan. This should create comprehensive, physician grade documentation.
Proposed Goals
Create a product capable of being interacted with by voice and capable of producing physician grade documentation. Said solution should also remind patients when to dose and how much to dose.
Contributors
Cole, Lucas, Jordan, Dunni
Brainstorm/Summary
- Notify multiple people, like a trusted contact list when someone doesn’t mark that they took their medication
- Could be an escalation list like Mom -> Dad -> Doctor -> Ambulance
- Body sensors that can detect severe allergic reactions. This can then notify emergency services/contacts. these sensors would also be able to detect activity after treatment to allow patients to follow treatment plan
- Something that can adjust treatment as you go. Integration with Google/Apple/Whatever calendar
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