Meet Chikoo (Francis in Mazateco)

Problematic 🚩

During the last 5 years in Mexico there has been a great increase in the demand for the services of clinics adjacent to pharmacies and care in public services, according to data obtained from the National Survey of Health and Nutrition. More than 65% of Mexicans who are affiliated with a public health institution prefer to carry out their medical consultation in this type of office.

This, coupled with the more than 46 million Mexicans who do not have health insurance, has meant that consumption in offices adjacent to pharmacies and public services has grown exponentially, to levels where the simple fact of making a consultation In these types of establishments, can take up to more than 3 hours, since many Mexicans prefer to use these establishments because they are not expensive and are very well located.

And this is a story that more and more Mexicans are living at the national level, if we go to any of these establishments we will find completely full waiting rooms or even lines that extend to the outside of the establishment.

How can we solve this? ✋

When medical consultations are carried out, most of the time is spent in an interrogation to be able to fill out the patient's medical history and to learn more about him. This is so that doctors can generate an efficient consultation based on your medical history.

But what if we support the doctors to make this interrogation a faster and simpler process so that the efficiency with which the consultations are carried out is greater? 🤓

Meet Chikoo 💜

Meet Chikoo (Or Francis in Mazateco), a chatbot that will help you during your journey when filling out your pre-consultation data on your own. Chikoo makes filling in your data as simple as answering a question with an SMS message or making a call to our personal number and filling in your data by voice.

Chikoo will help you fill in the data that is essential for your doctor, with the aim of making your consultation a better experience.

You will simply have to answer a number of questions that range from your personal information, family history to what brought you to a medical consultation?

Once you have finished this, chikoo will send you a link with a QR code that you can use in your next consultation. This QR is used so that your doctor can see all the data that you gave Chikoo and can make a diagnosis quickly and simply.

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Thus guaranteeing a simple, fast and efficient consultation process. Chikoo is a perfect tool for anyone who doesn't feel capable of using today's applications, such as the elderly or parents who have a very busy schedule.

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⚙ Technologies used to build Chikoo

Azure

Azure Functions

Azure Bot Services

Azure Cognitive Services

Azure Cognitive Services

Installing

Creating a virtual environment

First, make sure you have the virtualenv package installed on your system. If you don't have it, you can install it using the following command:

pip install virtualenv

Then, create a new virtual environment by running the following command:

virtualenv env

This will create a new directory called env in the current directory, which contains the virtual environment. You can activate the virtual environment by running the following command:

source env/bin/activate

Now you are in the virtual environment and can install the required packages.

Installing packages using pip

The packages you need can be specified in a requirements.txt file. Each package should be on a separate line. For example, if you need to install the flask and firebase packages, the requirements.txt file should look like this:

flask
firebase

To install the packages, run the following command:

pip install -r requirements.txt

This will install all the packages listed in the requirements.txt file.

Deactivating the virtual environment

Once you are done working with the virtual environment, you can deactivate it by running the following command:

deactivate

This will return you to the original operating system environment.