This is a web application that helps you with your concerns regarding the possible medical conditions/diagnosis for symptoms you are facing

Features

1. User can select from the given list of symptoms to get list of diagnosis
2. User can use the search query and give inputs like I am suffering from fever, which again lists all the diagnosis possible by extracting the key symptoms from the search query
3. For a given diagnosis, the user can get its description and all the information regarding its medications and medical procedures

Screenshots/GIFs

Overall representation

Search using the search bar

Search using the given symptoms

APIS list

The Following APIs can be called for registrations and login purposes. No Authentication is required to call these APIs.

1. GET / - Returns the home page
2. GET /getSymptomList - Return a list of symptoms acquired from APIMEDIC APIs in form of JSON
3. GET /getDiagnosis - Returns the result page with the diagnosis variables begin set from the results of APIMEDIC APIs.
4. GET /getDiseaseInfo/:disease - Returns all the information scraped from the medicinenet.com website about the diagnosis disease in form of a JSON response.

Note

If there is any error in processing the user input, instead of the error, the homepage is returned.

SetUp

To set up the development environment, you need to follow the following steps

1. Download npm and nodeJs. Installation guide can be found here
2. Download and install MongoDB on your system.

Tech Stack and API used

The project has been built on Express Framework and uses MongoDB as its database. request module is used for web sraping and for making the API calls. Used APIMEDIC sandbox API to get a dummy list of symptoms and its associated diagnosis. Web Scraping is performed on medicinenet.com for fetching all the related information regarding the associated diagnosis.

Running the Project

To run the project on local server, first navigate to the project directory in your filesystem.

1. Now create a directory /data/db in the location where your project folder resides.
2. Now run mongod --dbpath=./data/db from the current directory.
3. Now run cd insta-medicare, or go inside the project folder.
4. Now run npm install
5. Now run npm start in the terminal.
6. Open localhost:3000 from your favourite browser.