MediNext - A One Stop Solution designed to Improve Medical Facilities in India
MediNext After carefully analysing the needs of the doctors and patients in India, we have come up with a one-stop solution we hope to call MediNext. This solution would be in a form of a portal - one for doctors and one for patients. It would streamline the process of ordering medicines and booking appointments with doctors for the patients. For doctors, it would reduce errors while recording patient data and incorporate AI in patient diagnostics. Over 5 million medical errors occur annually, with nearly 70–80% of them being caused due to miscommunication and misunderstanding between patients and healthcare providers (World Health Organization; Joint Commission). This highlights the urgent need for better systems of recording and sharing patient information. Electronic Health Records (EHRs) help address this issue by reducing medication errors through E-prescribing, improving patient safety by up to 63% (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality). EHRs also give doctors a...