CareDirect: App to find most efficient and cheapest healthcare based on factors such as injuries, ER wait times, health insurance provider, and location.
- Access to care
How can we make it easier to access care (especially specialists) and provide clear, timely notifications, and reminders along their healthcare journey?
- Patient satisfaction
How can we make it more convenient for patients to provide real-time feedback about their healthcare experience through a mobile app?
- New patient experience
As a potential new customer, how can we leverage the mobile app to help new patients better understand what services are available to them?
- Managing my health
It’s easy to get overwhelmed by all the tasks patients often have to do to maintain their health, how can we make managing health more enjoyable?
- Addressing mental health challenges
Mental health challenges may be difficult to identify and have a broad impact on health, how can we help clinicians be more in tune with patients mental health needs?
- Cultural Competence in Healthcare
How can we design a mobile app that helps healthcare providers better understand and respect cultural differences, improving communication and care for diverse patient populations?
- Access to Care for Rural and Remote Communities
How can we leverage technology to improve healthcare access for rural and remote communities, ensuring timely and specialized care for those in underserved areas? (Focus on SDSU Imperial Valley Connection - Rural/Remote)
- Enhancing disease prevention (For Geocomputational Thinker Awards)
How can big (geospatial) data analytics and AI be used to improve access to information about the influence of human behavior, cultural practices, and social interactions on the spread of diseases?
- Addressing environmental health disparities (For Geocomputational Thinker Awards)
How can we leverage big (geospatial) data analytics and AI to improve access to resources that mitigate the impact of environmental factors, i.e. pollution, on health disparities?
- Owen Yang (Github: owenkyang)
- Avi Mehta (Github: avimehta30)
- Andrew Yin (Github: ayinfly)
- David Wang (Github: dwang88)