{"title":"Swasthify : Health as a Service","authors":"S. Pathak, Pranjay Poddar, V. Lavanya","doi":"10.1109/ICNWC57852.2023.10127352","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This project is aimed at ameliorating the hardships people face in availing the health services. The information related to even the basic health services like hospital beds, vaccines, icu beds etc. remain elusive to the end users. This issue has grown to an extent that it wreaked havoc during the pandemic, when people were wobbling between hospitals to avail these services since there isn’t any such universal or national database to keep a track of these items. Owing to the aforementioned problems, and scenarios we tried to collate the historical data about how the health issues have been around the country, and keeping the biggest requirement in mind of the general public whenever they face any health emergency is time, we devised a solution which tries to provide health services on the fingertips of end users.A two way interface, where the hospitals, and users get to self-on-board themselves on the portal. Hospitals reserve the rights to add, and update the services they are providing through this interface. On the other hand users get to search and de-clutter the hospitals on an umpteen parameters like availability of a particular requirement, location etc. Not only this we have also provide a dedicated channel which will enable any user to communicate with a hospital or other users in a chat forum through their dashboard, this will further our cause of bringing transparency.Since the project is in its initial stage we have limited the exposed services, but as the number of hospitals on the platform increase we are planning to make this a dynamic scenario wherein a hospital reserves the right to add, or remove a service. Consulting a doctor and booking an appointment for the same is also something which we try to integrate, and also collate the user experience and showcase it as feedback for others.We have a very simple purpose hidden behind this idea, and it’s to amp up the extenuation of health sector which almost got ramshackled during the course of pandemic. It’s an acceptable excuse that it was an unprecedented situation, but our health sector was always like this, so to get rid of this opacity, and bring a time bound service at tables for our end users, this project will act as a health asservice, where you can plan before you take any step.","PeriodicalId":197525,"journal":{"name":"2023 International Conference on Networking and Communications (ICNWC)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2023 International Conference on Networking and Communications (ICNWC)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNWC57852.2023.10127352","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This project is aimed at ameliorating the hardships people face in availing the health services. The information related to even the basic health services like hospital beds, vaccines, icu beds etc. remain elusive to the end users. This issue has grown to an extent that it wreaked havoc during the pandemic, when people were wobbling between hospitals to avail these services since there isn’t any such universal or national database to keep a track of these items. Owing to the aforementioned problems, and scenarios we tried to collate the historical data about how the health issues have been around the country, and keeping the biggest requirement in mind of the general public whenever they face any health emergency is time, we devised a solution which tries to provide health services on the fingertips of end users.A two way interface, where the hospitals, and users get to self-on-board themselves on the portal. Hospitals reserve the rights to add, and update the services they are providing through this interface. On the other hand users get to search and de-clutter the hospitals on an umpteen parameters like availability of a particular requirement, location etc. Not only this we have also provide a dedicated channel which will enable any user to communicate with a hospital or other users in a chat forum through their dashboard, this will further our cause of bringing transparency.Since the project is in its initial stage we have limited the exposed services, but as the number of hospitals on the platform increase we are planning to make this a dynamic scenario wherein a hospital reserves the right to add, or remove a service. Consulting a doctor and booking an appointment for the same is also something which we try to integrate, and also collate the user experience and showcase it as feedback for others.We have a very simple purpose hidden behind this idea, and it’s to amp up the extenuation of health sector which almost got ramshackled during the course of pandemic. It’s an acceptable excuse that it was an unprecedented situation, but our health sector was always like this, so to get rid of this opacity, and bring a time bound service at tables for our end users, this project will act as a health asservice, where you can plan before you take any step.