Brigham & Women's Hospital Application

Hospitals need to run quickly and smoothly to save lives. But, they are extremely complex to manage. We architected a prototype hospital management app for Brigham & Women's Hospital. The app would theoretically run on kiosks placed throughout the hospital. It guides visitors through the huge building and helps employees request services and manage staff.

Our app streamlined hospital navigation. It displays a map of each floor with interactive nodes for different rooms. Users can automatically generate optimized, visual paths between rooms. They also get a textual list of directions and can scan a QR code to take the directions on-the-go on their phone!

The graph was loaded into our Postgres database from CSV data. We used the Canvas API to render the map. This was very complex! I connected the Canvas API with React for buttons and state. We implemented various pathfinding algorithms like A* and Dijkstra's, using the Strategy design pattern for clean code.

We integrated jobs into the map. Staff can request services like sanitation, transport, and language interpretation to specific rooms. They can request specific employees and give details.

Employees can log into the kiosk using OAuth with Auth0. They can view their assigned service requests and mark them completed. Hospital admins can log in and view requests for all employees and filter accordingly.

I did a lot of the login management, showing the appropriate pages and information based on the employee. I paired with a newer teammate and mentored him to eventually flesh out the authentication features on his own! I also did a lot of the request displaying, filtering, and data management. This was my first big experience working with authentication and databases and I learned a lot!