Echoes of Health: Medical Narrative Chronology

This project creates an accessible, visual timeline of a patient's medical history, integrating disparate records into a coherent narrative for improved understanding and management.

Inspired by the fragmented yet interconnected nature of Frankenstein's creature and the layered realities of Inception, this project focuses on the 'Logistics Tracking' scraper's ability to pull and organize data. In the realm of medical record management, patient histories are often scattered across various providers, labs, and imaging centers, creating a disjoined and difficult-to-follow narrative. 'Echoes of Health' aims to solve this by developing a simple web scraper (leveraging publicly available APIs if possible, or by focusing on user-inputted data in its initial, low-cost phase) that gathers key medical events from different sources – think diagnoses, procedures, medication changes, lab results, and imaging reports. The 'Frankenstein' element comes into play by 'piecing together' these disparate 'limbs' of medical data into a cohesive and understandable whole. The 'Inception' layer is represented by visualizing this data not just as a list, but as an interactive, multi-layered timeline. Users can 'dream' deeper into specific periods, exploring the context of events, the prescribed treatments, and the outcomes. The niche aspect is the focus on narrative construction and visual storytelling of medical journeys, rather than just data storage. It's low-cost because the core functionality can be built with readily available web scraping libraries and a simple front-end visualization tool. The high earning potential lies in offering this as a premium service to patients who want better control and understanding of their health, or even as a valuable tool for researchers seeking to analyze patient trajectories in specific conditions.

Project Details

Area: Medical Record Management Method: Logistics Tracking Inspiration (Book): Frankenstein - Mary Shelley Inspiration (Film): Inception (2010) - Christopher Nolan