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###Secure Chat for Doctors

Our challenge for the 2 week final project at Makers Academy is to develop a chat app specifically for use by Doctors.

#The Problem

As a Medical Professional, attaining a second opinion for a patient is a length and expensive process. Patient data may only be viewed by medical staff outside of the patients case under a myriad of rules and regulations.

Traditionally a doctor may meet with another doctor in a private face-to-face environment to discuss patient cases. At this meeting a Caldicott Guardian must be present and various legal documents signed to ensure patient data security.

• Currently, what is the second opinion process, as a doctor who needs a second opinion
• What can be improved in the second opinion process, how would this app help?
• What problem needs to be solved? Why do you need to do this?
• What are the legal limitations of an electronic second opinion process?
• What information needs to be transfered between specialists?
• How regularly to you need to revisit cases?
• How do you know who to ask for a second opinion for a specific case?
• How do you approach doctors for a second opinion?
• Why would a specialist be motivated to give you a second opinion? Financial gain? or is there a mandatory requirement for practising doctors?
• Would there be implications taking this app to a worldwide audience?

• Chris Batts
• Ben Conway
• Simon Lange
• Daniel Obembe
• Alex Blease

Over the weekend,

• Information comission
• DGL
• HCPC
• Read up on patient date security
• Caldicott principals
• Data protection, in what context will it apply for our app?
• Brush up on technology covered so far in the course
• Come up with app name and branding
• Look at other apps for inspiration/features/design/improvments

Below are some technologies we researched for inspiration to this project.

• chat servers
• sinatra chat
• Caldicott
• Cramp

Before we decided on a stack of technology to use to build this project, we experimented with a few options

• Socket.io and Node.js + Express.js It was quick and relativly simple to setup a basic chat server using Socket.io.

• Cramp and sinatra Having used sinatra extensively for previous projects, these technologies felt familiar and easy to use, and with our current skill set easily expandible into other features.

We held a discussion to describe the type of stakeholders in our app and came to the following conclusions

• Doctor who needs a second opinion
• Doctor who wants to give a second opinion
• Patient
• System Administrator

We then describe use cases of each stakeholder and outlined our workflow using pivitol tracker