The Lebanese Association of the Order of Malta (LAKM) is the primary health provider via 4 mobile clinics for more than 200,000 individuals, including up to 40,000 in Akkar. The large majority of users (95%) are Syrian refugees, a disadvantaged and vulnerable group. The service faces several operational challenges:
- Patients with complex medical needs.
- Limited resources and limited links to specialist care.
- Reliance on paper records.
- Difficult to monitor clinical activity, expenses, and produce reports
Hippocrates solves frontline problems in healthcare using blockchain and decentralised technology. Although this is a hackathon project, the goal is to create an open and connected healthcare system to support the United Nation Sustatinable Development Goals (SDGs). Hippocrates pursues following SDGs:
Achieving the target of reducing premature deaths due to incommunicable diseases by 1/3 by the year 2030 would also require more efficient technologies, Hippocrates provides a digital health and social care ‘passport’ for each patient, accessible via a unique QR code printed on a card at no cost and evene offline service, for reduced inequalittties without access to digital resources.
Many more efforts are needed to fully eradicate a wide range of diseases and address many different persistent and emerging health issues. By focusing on providing more efficient health systems, improved sanitation and communication to helps doctors and volunteers serve patients with an open infrastructure, significant progress can be made in helping to save the lives of millions.
There is growing consensus that economic growth is not sufficient to reduce poverty if it is not inclusive and if it does not involve the three dimensions of sustainable development – economic, social and environmental. Communities with a low eeconomical infrastructure are not able to provide
To reduce inequality, Hippocrates provides an open healthcare infrastructure to be universal in principle, paying attention to the needs of disadvantaged and marginalized individuals. At the hands of volunteers and doctors, Hippocrartes digitilise clinics allowing notes to be recorded electronically - improving quality, and reducing reliance on paper notes. It provides to every patient their own digital health ‘passport’ that they can access securely and even with no internet access from anywhere.
Hippocrates uses and blockchain and decentralised infrastructure for security, accountability and connectivity. Th tech stack contains:
- IPFS - for distributed p2p file sharing and ecnrypting
- Ethereum - for smart contracts
- MySQL - for clinic management
- Clone the repository:
sudo git clone https://github.com/whiteyhat/Hippocrates - Install the dependencies:
npm i - Edit your enviromental variables at thee file
.env - Run the DB migrations to your local database
adonis migration:run- Start the web app:
npm start