2024 BIG DATA HACKATHON PROPOSAL FORM

Team Number: Team-133

Team Name: Friar Health

Your team's hackathon idea in One sentence:

Bridging the gap between older folks and mental healthcare by utilizing personalized–and accessible–resources and tools, optimized by edge-cutting machine learning algorithms and predictor models.

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Hackathon Five CORE Themes. CHECK ONE or TWO QUESTIONS (insert X in [ ]).

• Access to care

How can we make it easier to access care (especially specialists) and provide clear, timely notifications, and reminders along their healthcare journey?

• Patient satisfaction

How can we make it more convenient for patients to provide real-time feedback about their healthcare experience through a mobile app?

• New patient experience

As a potential new customer, how can we leverage the mobile app to help new patients better understand what services are available to them?

• Managing my health

It's easy to get overwhelmed by all the tasks patients often have to do to maintain their health, how can we make managing health more enjoyable?

• Addressing mental health challenges

Mental health challenges may be difficult to identify and have a broad impact on health, how can we help clinicians be more in tune with patients mental health needs?

Optional Questions. TEAMS CAN SELECT ONE ADDITIONAL OPTIONAL QUESTION (insert X in [ ])

• Cultural Competence in Healthcare

How can we design a mobile app that helps healthcare providers better understand and respect cultural differences, improving communication and care for diverse patient populations?

• Access to Care for Rural and Remote Communities

How can we leverage technology to improve healthcare access for rural and remote communities, ensuring timely and specialized care for those in underserved areas? (Focus on SDSU Imperial Valley Connection - Rural/Remote)

• Enhancing disease prevention (For Geocomputational Thinker Awards)

How can big (geospatial) data analytics and AI be used to improve access to information about the influence of human behavior, cultural practices, and social interactions on the spread of diseases?

• Addressing environmental health disparities (For Geocomputational Thinker Awards)

How can we leverage big (geospatial) data analytics and AI to improve access to resources that mitigate the impact of environmental factors, i.e. pollution, on health disparities?

Team Coordinator GitHub Username: alexandrarh

Team Members

• Alexandra Hernandez, @alexandrarh
• Armin Irvije, @Armin-Irvije
• Zaina Kudchiwala, @Zaina15