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#Ava Ava tears down the barriers that separate people in need from effective and timely treatment.

##Dedication This is solely dedicated to Dr. Scott E. Frees, Professor of Computer Science at Ramapo College of New Jersey, Lehigh Alum, and heart of our hearts.

Ava is an application that breaks down these barriers in two ways: increasing consistency and accuracy of self medication, and increasing response time and effectiveness of emergency treatment. It can track your medications by just taking of picture of it and reminds you when to take it. Also, it can help you find emergency medical care in medical emergencies and also send an automated text to all you emergency contacts with your location.

The most critical part of our building process wasn't any of the tools, languages, or systems that we used, but effective teamwork. We split up the work load and synchronized our progress through Github and by using other source control tools provided by Python, such as virtual environments and req freezing.

Once that is established, it's just a matter of hacking together something that excites and surprises us!

Syncing work is tough, but a well thought-out application architecture and a healthy amount of learning about source control goes a long way.

We're most proud of the magnitude of the app's potential for having a wildly positive effect on the world. Ava is truly out to do something good.

We're also fairly proud of the size, scale, and scope of the app. It is built with a scalable architecture, contains many salient features, and is rather large, even for a four person team.

We learned a ton about the tools that we used, whether it was sending and receiving text messages on the server, managing the database, or handling the mobile client's communication with our server, and all of the third party servers that we used.

Ava can only move forward. Hopefully she will save some lives!

##2nd place winner at Lehigh Hacks Fall 2016 ##Best Medical Hack by Knowledgent, Lehigh Hacks 2016