TheCloudDoesntExist
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Project / product name: CGM Continuous Glucose Monitoring Dashboard
Link to the project: https://theclouddoesntexist.netlify.app
Team leader: Cesare De Cal
Challenge: 5. Continuous glycemic monitoring in intensive care units
Problem: Staff currently don’t have a way to monitor the glucose levels of diabetic patients on one single dashboard. Currently, nurses have to *manually* enter the data they read from the Dexcom sensor attached to the patients. There are existing dashboard solutions, like Nightscout, however, the Hospital only show out-patient data and also it’s a close community, the platform does not do any data analysis and requires inefficient steps to connect to the patients' sensors. Today we changed this!
Solution: We have built an out-of-the-box dashboard which connects to the patients’ Dexcom, reads the sensors' data, and displays this data on a graph. Our solution shows real sensor information from Doctor Robert Béms sensor and our teammate Fabio’s sensor. With our solution, we are not only limited to monitoring, but we also have all the data to perform data analysis (our next steps!).
Impact: You are seeing one of the first real-time multi-patient glucose monitoring applications. You are seeing raw sensor data displayed in charts. We still need to have nurses add sensor information. We have talked to investors and it sounds like this could be a very profitable idea, as hospitals increasingly need smart monitoring solutions to keep up with the latest glucose sensors in the market.
Feasibility & financials: Our project works out of the box. The data you see on the website is real measurement data from the Dexcom API. We have not paid a single cent to build this solution, and we think it is going to be pretty cheap to run this. Let the sensors do all the hard work :-)
What is new about your solution?: We’ve previously mentioned the competitive advantage of the CGM dashboard we built. We are excited about all the new things that we can achieve with a multi-patient monitoring platform. For example, adding hundreds of patients and quickly displaying a brief summary of the data. This dashboard will be used in ICU rooms, so it needs to be fast and easy to use.
What you have built at the hackathon - text explanation + code (e.g. GitHub link): We have built a easy-to-use dashboard and a complete backend which connects with the Dexcom API and shared the data. Backend (https://github.com/csr/SimpleBackend) and frontend (https://github.com/csr/health-hack-22).
What you had before the hackathon, please mention open source as well: We used React, a user interface library, and a React template (https://github.com/cruip/tailwind-dashboard-template). For the backend, we used FastAPI to build the REST API and a Dexcom Share API wrapper (https://github.com/gagebenne/pydexcom)
What comes next and what you wish to achieve: We are excited about the idea of working on the project in the upcoming months. We would like to join the Caelestinus FHIR healthtech incubator as long as it’s a part-time commitment as we are full-time software engineers and product managers. On the technical side, we have so much more to explore. Performing data analysis on the raw patients' data (that we have!) and overall making it easy to set up new patients in the dashboard.