TANVI SOMANI: And now we have another finalist from India.
Swaasthy is a medical lab made to uplift user health
and increase access to health care.
It contains medicine reminder functionality and the ability
to make an SOS call to a nearby ambulance,
get an appointment with a virtual doctor, and more.
Built with Flutter in Firebase, welcome the creators,
Bhavesh, Himanshu, Ishan, and Kushal
from Chitkara University in India.
NARRATOR: One in 10 patients in India
die each day due to a delay in getting
medical assistance, which is surprising,
because around 50,000 medical students graduate
every year in India, which is the highest in the world.
So we knew we had to do something.
Introducing Swaasthy, the only health app you will ever need.
To get started, simply sign in with a Google account,
fill out a few fields, and that's it. you're in.
Firstly, you build a symptom-based disease
recognition system, where the users
can type in the symptoms they are facing
and get a broader sense of what disease
they might be going through.
To get a surety, we added a doctor consultation platform,
where the patients can directly schedule appointments and have
a call with doctors from across the world right within the app.
They can pay the fee easily using Google Pay,
and all the appointments are listed within the app
from where they can get on a video call with the doctor.
After the appointment, the doctor
can give you a prescription, which
you can access at any time.
On the basis of feedback from doctors and patients,
we added a medicine reminder.
Whenever you take a medicine on time,
you will be rewarded with heart points, which
you can access by swiping left from your home screen.
If the user opts to anonymously share the data from the disease
recognition system, it will show heat maps
based on disease spread in user's locality,
and can notify the user in case of any risk.
We have also integrated discussion forums
for the community, where people can share their thoughts
and help those in need.
Each time you help someone, you will
be rewarded with heart points.
Lastly, in case of an emergency, a user
can tap on the Emergency button in our app,
and the nearest ambulance will be dispatched
to user's location, and along with that,
the nearby medical volunteers will be notified.
We really think this feature would help us save many lives.
This project was made possible with the help of all
these Google technologies.
Oh, and you can also ask your Google Assistant for remedies.
GOOGLE ASSISTANT: Here is a remedy you can try.
ERICA HANSON: Awesome.
Hi, everyone.
Good to see you.
Hi, Victor.
Great to see all of you.
Hi.
Great.
So Victor, do you want to introduce yourself?
And I know that you have a couple
of questions for the team.
VICTOR GRAU SERRAT: Yes.
Thanks, Erica.
Hi, team.
Hi, everyone.
I'm Victor.
I'm based out of the mountains of Colorado
in the US, where I work remotely as an engineering and technical
lead at the UNICEF Office of Innovation,
where we look at technology innovation opportunities that
exist at the intersection of multibillion
businesses, markets, and one billion-person needs.
I only bring this up because this should definitely
resonate with what you're building
and your participation in the Google Solution Challenge.
I'm really impressed with what you
have built, which is loaded with no shortage of functionality
and features.
And we could easily call it hospital in a box,
or rather the hospital inside your phone.
Which brings me to my first question, which
is, given the variety of services
that you integrate in your app and the work involved
in setting the right partnerships for each,
which one or two will you prioritize
in the immediate future to maximize early adoption?
KUSHAL BHANOT: So every feature that you
see in the app has been totally thought before and made
so that we can make our product market fit.
If I were to list two features that
would be the major attraction for early users,
I would pick them on the basis of usage and impact.
So those two features, according to me,
would be medicine reminder and doctor consultation.
So the best part about Swaasthy is
that every feature complements the other, be it
heat maps, discussion forums, or symptom-based disease
recognition.
So this creates a seamless user experience.
Obviously, the ultimate goal of our app
is to reduce the number of deaths
due to lack of the first response in India.
So to tackle that, we'll partner up
with public and private hospitals
to create a network of ambulances that will leverage
our SOS feature further, thus making Swaasthy the best
in the segment.
VICTOR GRAU SERRAT: Makes perfect sense,
and I really like hearing that you're putting impact first,
and that's your measure of success
on deciding where to go.
Let me switch gears.
And now for more of a technical question,
I'm curious to hear what parts of the Flutter platform
made it easier for the app development
process, versus what parts of the platform
didn't quite fit the needs of your app,
and you had to write some custom code for it.
ISHAN SHARMA: I would like to tackle that one.
Let me just begin by saying that we love Flutter.
And just to give you a little context on why,
see, most of the folks in our team,
we come from an Android and web background.
And I know that as engineers, we should not
use words like magic.
But the first time that I used hot
reload in Flutter, that's exactly what it
feels like, pure magic.
Usually on Android, you have to go through this whole data
reprocess just to see your code changes reflect in the app.
And in Flutter, it's crazy fast, like, give
or take two or three seconds.
That's it.
Plus apart from that, of course, the cross-platform capabilities
of Flutter, you can still write and [? book ?] native code
using method channels.
And of course, the Dart language, personally for me,
it's kind of this perfect blend between the power of C#
and still maintaining the flexibility of JavaScript.
And coming to some of the challenges
that we faced in building Swaasthy,
Himanshu has a lot more to add on to that.
So over to you.
HIMANSHU SHARMA: Yeah, sure.
So honestly speaking, all the requirements of Swaasthy
were already met by Flutter.
However, we faced some limitation
while adding specific features to it,
like integrating it with Google Assistant Action.
We used intent filters for voice actions and method channels
to ask for data, but we cannot create our own voice actions.
So we create a separate Google Assistant app for Swaasthy
itself.
Another limitation was how to create the heat maps.
For this, we had to customize a particular plugin
according to our use case and [INAUDIBLE] work.
Also, the GP plugin was not released at that moment,
so we had to rely on third-party payment gateway services that
supports Google Pay.
So these were some of the limitations
that I can recall right now.
VICTOR GRAU SERRAT: That's great to hear.
I'm glad to hear that you've figured out your way
through the development phase.
Very quickly, I'm really curious, Swaasthy,
I really like the name.
It's like a hybrid of Hindu and English.
Is there any cool, one-minute line, story
that you can tell us behind the name?
ISHAN SHARMA: Yeah.
It took us a couple of months to actually come up with a name.
Initially, we've called it Project Code
Red, because red is the color for health, that plus symbol.
But literally, we want it to, because this solution
is focused on India, our country,
and we want it to resemble that somehow in the name itself.
So Swaasthy, swaasth in Hindi means health.
So we just combined that and added an adjective, added a Y,
because it sounds cool.
So that's how we came up with the name Swaasthy.
VICTOR GRAU SERRAT: I love it.
Very neat.
Back to you, Erica.
ERICA HANSON: Great.
Yeah, I was also curious about the name, so thanks
for sharing.
So let's bring in the audience question.
We have a question from DKG.
Thank you for asking this.
So how effective have the app trials been?
ISHAN SHARMA: Sure, yeah.
We would love to tackle that.
I would like to say, a product is, of course, only successful
if the user chooses to use it.
And that is why testing is one of the most crucial aspects
of building any solution.
And to be very honest, in these COVID times,
it was a bit difficult for us to reach out
to hospitals and other medical offices and patients.
But still, we managed to go out to this nearby nursing
home in Panchkula.
It's a small town in India.
And over there, we reached out to the staff there regarding
the problems they were facing, the medical staff
and they [? indicated ?] medical training opportunities
that they receive while they are graduating,
while they are studying.
And along with that, we also asked a couple of patients
about the problems they have to face on day-to-day basis
to get medical assistance.
And some of the things that we received
were, and we also implemented were, first of all,
patients are normally, usually patients
aren't taking medicines on time.
They tend to forget that, and some even
hide medicines from their caretakers for some reason.
So for that, we integrated Medicine Reminder
built into Swaasthy.
And the second, most of the times, patients
don't know what that type of doctor or specialist
to consult for a specific disease.
Most of the times, whenever you are going through any disease,
you visit your local physician or clinical doctor.
And for that, we added our symptom-based disease
recognition system.
And of course, in some rural areas, there's a shortage.
There's not that much, not a lot of good doctors
available in all the regions, so that's
why we added a doctor consultation feature also.
And these are all integrated within.
So if you search for some diseases, some symptoms
on our symptom-based disease recognition system,
you get recommended, hey, this doctor might be good.
You can just book an appointment over there.
Once you book an appointment, then whatever
prescription the doctor gives you,
it's automatically added to your medicine reminder,
and you will get notified.
ERICA HANSON: That's great.
BHAVESH GOYAL: I wanted to add something in between.
We successfully conducted the SOS trial
with the help of Chandigarh police,
where a person suffering from heart attack
was to reach the hospital.
But with the help of our app, they
notified the Chandigarh police to sensitize the whole area
and provide the green corridor to the patient
to reach to the hospital soon.
So we were able to save their life.
And that was the first SOS trial,
and it was successfully made.
So it was a great token of appreciation
for us, as we were able to save a life with that.
So it encouraged us to make some more features
and integrate into our app.
ERICA HANSON: Wow, that's great.
Thank you.
And Victor, did you have any final thoughts?
VICTOR GRAU SERRAT: Yeah, that's awesome.
I wish you the best of luck.
I think you're doing a great job.
And I wanted to build on, Bhavesh's last comment, in that
your opening video starts with these stats
on preventable deaths.
And I'm really looking forward to crossing paths again
in a couple of years, where you say, well,
before Swaasthy existed, this were the number
of preventable deaths.
Now we are here, and this is our work.
So keep it up.
Good luck.
ERICA HANSON: Good luck, yeah.
I would love to see that as well.
We'll check back in a couple of years.
Join us for the Demo Day in the future.
Awesome.
Thank you so much for sharing more about your project.
And to the audience, vote for this team
if they're your favorite team.
Thanks so much, everyone.
Bye.