Healthcare Developers Onboarding

[IMPACT]

Project Brief

While decentralized Finance (DeFi) apps are flourishing, the growth of DeHealth apps is relatively slow. This is due to the dependencies a developer has to learn and consider when building one. One has to know about health compliance, security, data privacy, and standards among other factors. This discourages and prevents them from building health dApps.

This is one of the reasons why we built a decentralized health infrastructure for web 3.0 called Hippocrades. It is a platform providing comprehensive Healthcare APIs with integrated security, interoperability, and compliance. Thus, it makes it easy and fast for a developer to build healthcare applications. This can encourage more devs to build health dApps.

Solution

Hippocrades has released the first stage of its platform and will soon be adding more modules. In line with this, we want to make Hippocrades more accessible to developers by creating onboarding manuals and tutorials that will help them accelerate their learning.

While Hippocrades makes it easy for devs to use the platform, it has a huge tech infrastructure that can be used for many use cases. Here are some major ones:

• Deploy your own health infrastructure ideal for health institutions, local or national governments
• Deploy a decentralized Health Information Exchange (HIE)
• Develop health apps or integrate existing ones

As such, onboarding can still be improved by providing organized, well-written materials and tutorials.

Africa Incubator

Since Hippocrades is now part of the ongoing Iceaddis Incubator program in Africa, this will attract users to try the platform. Thus, having these materials as part of the onboarding process can encourage more developers to create health apps in Cardano.

Challenge

The challenge is for Cardano to be the blockchain of choice in Africa by 2023. And that projects and developers in Africa will not be isolated, but networked and growing.

Army of Healthcare Devs

We envision an army of health developers that will address the different healthcare pain points in Africa across the varying needs of the countries in the region. One way to attract them is to provide great onboarding materials and tutorials.

Developers can focus more on the apps (frontend) as Hippcrodes mostly takes care of the rest - blockchain, zero-knowledge, and APIs.

To make this work, we would need a team of technical writers, content creators, and graphic artists. They would need to be immersed with the technology and the ins and outs of Hippocrades platform.

So the potential risk is if the team is not able to produce valuable materials that are user-friendly. This can be mitigated by proper selection of the team, planning, and proactive participation of the core team of Hippocrades.

[FEASIBILITY]

Month 1

• Team selection
• Onboarding to Hippocrades platform
• Brainstorming
• Planning and setting timeline of activities
• Distribution of work

Months 2 - 3

• Start of content creation
• Share to website and groups as materials get done

Month 4

• Turnover and assessment

Technical Writers (1)

• $1.5T @ 3months
• $4.5T

Graphic Artist (2)

• $1T @ 3 months
• $6T

Project Lead

• $500 @ 4 months (spread)
• $2T

Research, Meetings, Logistics

• $500/mo @ 3
• $1.5T

Total $14T

Team Summary

Our team has been building healthcare solutions since 2016. We have built Hippocrades, a decentralized healthcare infrastructure for web 3.0. It has been funded by Project Catalyst and is now part of the Ariob Incubator / Iceaddis program in Africa (this is in partnership with Cardano).

References to Our Works

• Hippocrades Whitepaper here
• Deploy your own health dApps (www.hippocrades.org)
• Actual deployment of Hippocrades (www.hippocrades.com)
• Demo of Hippocrades Apps here
• Healthcare API documentation here
• We are the same team behind MYCURE

This project will be lead by:

Dale - Founder of Hippocrades and the co-author of its whitepaper. He also founded a health tech startup, MYCURE, and healthcare APIs platform HAPI Hub. Prior to these startups, he also founded and run Team OPS (a soft dev company) for 11 years. He graduated with the highest distinction in his master's class at the University of the Philippines and also took a one-year graduate program in management at Harvard University.

[AUDITABILITY]

The materials will be divided into modules with sub-tasks on each. A timeline will be set for each of the tasks to see if the project is on track. These will be included in the daily standups and weekly meetings.

We typically use Github even for non-technical tasks lists to monitor progress. The same will be applied here.

As mentioned above, items in the checklist would need to be ticked off every time a task is done. All ticks would mean that the deliverables were executed. They are considered successful if they are all done within the timeline expected.

Production of the tutorials and materials shared in the website and groups will also be a way to measure the project's milestones.

Hippocrades as an Infrastructure and Platform

Hippocrades is more than just an app, it's a health infrastructure and platform that other developers can use to build more healthcare apps. It also has apps that are independent of each other but can be used altogether (or in combination) depending on the needs of the deployer.

Following are the funded proposals by Catalyst that are part of the Hippocrades ecosystem:

• Integration of Health Infra to Cardano blockchain here
• Pharmacy Management System here
• Vaccine Management Platform here

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