Hi @Darshpreet2000, I hope you are doing fine since the summer. Thank you for the excellent work on the cost of care app. We would like to see it to be posted to the Google Play Store, so that we can start asking users to review the app and see if it is useful to them.
I know @UsmanSattarMD was interested in doing a user study and evaluating the app among marginalized or populations with health disparities. Are you interested in taking this app forward, at least in a beta stage that it can be put on the Play Store for users to give us feedback?
Hello @sunbiz, Hope you are doing great. Yes, of course. Actually, I have been totally swamped for over the last month or so leading the transition and restructuring efforts of two of our recent acquisitions at our company. So, I was in total hyperdrive and couldn’t get back to you. Besides writing the evaluation report from the perspective potential users (which I will submit soon), how can I help further through its beta and launch on the google play store? Please give me at least a week to wrap these things up at my work to be available full time for this. Let me know.
Sure @sunbiz , I am very much interested in taking this project forward. Let me know if you have any task for me related to App Improvement or generating the Apk, I will do it.
We can also make Website for this project if we have Database and Server available, let me know your views about it. @sunbiz@r0bby@muarachmann
I just need only SQL Database & a server to host API & website. We already have the data scraped in GitLab Repository , I will insert the data to SQL database & will use API to query the data. The website will have same functionality like the App
I will make a prototype webapp for now & will show here, for now I will use free available resources like heroku.
I suggest that we stick to mobile-only interface. I dont see why we need a web-hosted version and the mobile app too. Lets get the mobile app going, make it stable… and once we know what the users want through their feedback, we can include those features on the web version.
yes, @r0bby precisely. Unless the server was meant for something else than the web version of the app. From what I understood, the mobile app can work off the scraped data that is stored in the git repo.
Actually I have started creating the web app, I have even deployed it , its just UI with list of hospital getting fetched from GitLab Repo. Let me know whether to proceed further
I have deployed this on firebase
We will need only SQL server,
API & website can be hosted for free on heroku or firebase. We can also use my free 12 months trial of AWS for it also.
Okay then, we may make this website later or let me know whether to proceed further
Why do you need a server? I’m not placing a database open on the internet. So there’d be some kind of an API app running I presume? Why not use Firebase or similar?
Again, I am not going to have a database listening on any public-facing interface…so unless you have code in-place for server-side deployment, it won’t work. I don’t recall there being backend code, was there?
@sunbiz what’s your take? I’m willing to do it but I want to ensure that there isn’t another way that is better. I do think pulling from the git repo is better.
I have scraped manually CDM of Alaska, California, New York and Indiana during GSoC.
So they were large in size,
When I tried to use them in this web app , this web app hanged a lot.
So what I did, I used medicare data for all the states which is smaller in size and web app is not hanging now, but we are comparing very few procedures now.
That’s why I was asking for a server, we can’t compare large CDM on client side because its hanging their device
But if we want to go with this smaller data we don’t have any problem but we are only comparing lesser procedures for these states,
Alaska, California, New York and Indiana
