A tool that help patients navigate their healthcare, specifically their hospital visit (as of right now) in order to avoid medical surprise bills.
Tuan Nguyen and Leilani Hagen
This flutter app using Flutter 3.0.2, Dart 2.17.3 To clone the app, use this command line
Please clone the main branch to experience our latest updates and working app version:
Using https:
git clone https://github.com/leilanihagen/patience-healthcare-navigator.git
cd patience-healthcare-navigatorUsing ssh:
git clone https://github.com/leilanihagen/patience-healthcare-navigator.git
cd patience-healthcare-navigatorAfter cloning the app, run the following lines.
flutter clean
flutter pub getIf you are using Visual Code or Android Studio and have Flutter tools installed, press F5, (make sure to have an emulator or Android device connected). Or run this in command
flutter runTo compile in release mode (make app run smoother than debug mode), run the following command instead
flutter run --releaseIf you run into an error while running the app, you can contact us via [email protected]
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This project hasn't been tested on IOS, so there is no further instruction for running on IOS device, we don't know any potential error if you run on IOS. We will target this platform in the future.
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The goal of this app is to empower any person with a simple set of knowledge and tools for navigating the confusing and expensive healthcare system that we have in the USA. The problem we heard about the most from members of our community was the problem of "surprise medical bills." Therefore, after lots of research and interviews, we largely designed our app and its features around the simple question of "How can we help people avoid surprise bills and out-of-network bills?" Also, have focused our app solely around hospital visits for the time being, because this is the situation we have seen to be the most urgent, but we hope to expand to more areas of healthcare in the future.
To accomplish the above goals, we have implemented the following features:
The dashboard contain walkthroughs of the app and a collection of healthcare-related resources to
The user navigates and through our guidelines depending on their situation (i.e. "I'm in the hospital now," "I recently visited the hospital," etc.) and is presented with organized and concise information about things they can do before, during and after hospital stays to avoid surprise bills and manage their healthcare. We are working on adding video summaries to each of our guidelines pages for ease of use and accessibility.
This feature provides price estimates and medical service details to the user. The user can utilize this both to prepare for upcoming hospital visits by looking at service/procedure price estimates, or to help in emergency/unplanned visit situations when the patient is in the hospital and needs to make a decision about whether to receive a service/procedure. We are working on providing specific service information based on the user's state of residence.
This feature allows the user both to locate in-network hospitals near them, and determine whether a hospital they are currently at is in-network or not. This is helpful both in emergency/unplanned visit situations as well as planning for a visit, and helps avoid surprise bills by helping the user avoid expensive out-of-network care. We plan to also develop a feature that allows searching for a specific hospital by name and verifying if it is in-network or out-of-network. IMPORTANT: To use this feature, location services must be turned ON
The visit timeline-based note-taking feature allow patients or their family members/caretakers to take detailed, timestamped notes during and after hospital visits in order to track, manage and more effectively dispute surprise bills; eliminate the errors in the bill in order to avoid excess costs.