DiseaseMap

What is "DiseaseMap" comprised of ?

• Front end :
  
  • An online live feed (and map) that shows different infectious diseases and their spread that is supplied by hospitals world wide.
  • Statistics about how fast the disease spreads and a projection of where it might go next (based on previous data).
• Back ends :
  
  • Hospitals - the doctors/staff can update the infectious disease data (treatments used and recoveries/deaths).
  • Pharmacies - can update their medicine stocks daily.
  • Drug companies can see what medicine is required, how much and where.
  • Countries - can monitor infectious diseases and their spread.
  • Research institutes - can publish research data and collaborate on studies.

• Inter-communications API
  • The system is decentralized (for reduced implementation costs) - the servers (companies <-> hospitals <-> countries) "talk" to each other.

The problems I'm aiming to solve with "DiseaseMap" are :

• The response time of the authorities (countries/states/cities) for any impending infectious disease crisis.
• Hospitals can see what drugs other hospitals used, recovery rates/deaths and doctor notes (just the ones published).
• Research institutes can share data, work together on studies and publish new data (on infectious diseases) on infectious diseases.
• Projections of where the disease might spread, so the areas can get quarantined faster (limiting the spread).
• Quick supply/demand of medicine across the globe both in world wide pandemics and local ones.
• Help prioritize drug production in drug companies in a timely fashion.
• People traveling will know what areas to avoid in their journeys.

The solution is fairly simple, an online interface that can be accessed via any browser for older software, but also preparing an API for future software (pharmacies, drug companies and hospitals).

The faster the data comes in, the faster the response times (in the future) will be from authorities, companies and hospital staffs.

Also an online interface for the authorities that can help them monitor the health of their citizens live.

• With the front end, humans can see real data of pandemics/epidemics (less fake news and panic).
• People will heal faster (as medicine will arrive faster where it's required).
  
• The data shared by hospitals (as in what drugs they used and quantities) can help hospitals across the world find better ways to treat their sick people.
• By faster quarantines, the spread of any infectious disease will be limited that results in more healthy people.

We've learned a lot from this pandemic, a lot of fake data spread across the internet, authorities (in some countries) responded in a really slow manner, hospitals weren't ready and pharmacies ran quickly out of certain drugs.

The solution is to interconnect the health systems worldwide (just the infectious diseases and without personal data), so the target population is actually everyone, connecting supply and demand of drugs in a timely fashion and hospitals worldwide sharing their most efficient way of healing their patients.

In the age of the internet, our (humanity's) health data is still travel at a slow pace and it's not interconnected. Our solution is something new that aims at using humanity's information (it's speed) resources in order to save lives.

The core technologies that power our solution are :

• PHP and Apache for the low speed (where the hospital/pharmacy/authorities/drug company enter the data manually) back end.
• MySQL for the databases.
• JavaScript and HTML for the front end.
• Custom software (made in FreePascal, but any programming language would work, it will be served via CGI) for the user (hospital/pharmacy/authorities/drug company) API, to provide faster response times.
• Custom software (made in FreePascal, but any programming language would work, it will be served via CGI) for the inter-connected servers via a custom API. Servers "talk" to each other so we don't need a centralized server infrastructure (lowering the costs of the system and making it easier to scale).

This technology hasn't been used before so we can't actually prove it works.

The solution is just a "spark of the moment" concept created just a few hours ago so it doesn't serve anybody now.
Within an year it will serve most countries that have an electronic (full or partial) health system.
Within five years we hope it will serve all the countries where any form of internet is available.

The goal is to help as many people and also create a business model where our staff (programmers -as we increase the team-, future tech support and future teaching staff) can "put something on their tables" and still have a cheap enough solution.
Within the first year we'll try on a non-profit business model (just salaries for the staff and management) and if it works, we'll proceed in the same manner (hopefully) forever.

1. Our team is currently understaffed for such a large project.
2. Our budget is low, but for a cause like this we will develop the system (for free) until we have a workable alpha version.
3. Underdeveloped countries don't have an electronic health system or may not afford to buy servers and tablets/computers for all hospitals/pharmacies.
4. Underdeveloped countries may not have countrywide internet access.

1. We will increase our team as the project gets known, a lot of people will join probably join in.
2. We will go public on an earlier stage (than alpha) and raise some donations to support (financially) our team by asking both private and state/country authorities for donations.
3. When we go past the beta version, we will try and connect with other organizations/companies to donate computers/tablets/electronic cash registers and help with the infrastructure.

I'm currently working alone, but I can scale up fast as this is a common goal for the entire humanity.

My programming experience is 10+ years and have been studying programming since 2nd grade.

We don't have any partners right now, but in the future we hope (with the help of your program) that we'll manage to connect to more businesses/organizations and authorities.

Our business model is simple, it's corporate system with no profit. We will employ people like a standard company but the salaries will be a quantum instead of a standard salary.

For example, instead of a programmer receiving $2000/month he will receive (for example) 2 "points", each "point" represents a share of the donations. All the expenses will be calculated in "points" and the board of directors decides, depending on the necessities, where and how many points go into every sector (from employees to other expenses).

Our key customers are governments and the drug sector. Our products will be our software solution's development, deployment and support, but in the end the "product" would a better health for everybody.

The deployment is simple, all the required software (and dependencies) will be freely available online and along with our tech support team can be installed within a day on company/hospital servers and accessed via hospital computers (via browser). Also we will provide CDs and even preinstalled servers. Each "entity" must be verified by the authorities (after sign up) or signed up by the authorities (depending on the country's decision of implementation).

PLAN A (in case we manage to raise the funds as a non-profit) : Our financial stability will be ensured via donations (organizations, governments, private entities and private companies), we will create a donations fund (bank, PayPal and online services) for our newly opened organization but also an international SMS service (so anybody anywhere can donate a little). Also Romania has a program that allows companies to donate up to 2% of their income taxes to an non-profit organization.

PLAN B : A $75/month/entity subscription fee, in EU (alone) there are :

• ~2800 hospitals ($2520000)
• ~100 pharmaceutical companies ($7500). We can create a small interface for pharmaceutical reps with a small ($10/month) fee but we can't find any data on their number.
• ~97000 pharmacies ($87300000, an optimistic number because not all pharmacies will sign up).

This can total up (in an optimistic projection) to $89827500 in the first year, but as we will probably need only about ~$6000000/year (In a regular company the expenses almost double because of the taxes) we can slowly scale down the prices down to $10/month/entity as we develop the system and the entity number increases.
The $10/month/entity system will add up to $11977000/year which will be enough to sustain the system and further develop it and expand to a world wide system.

Because of the urgency of the current (COVID-19) outbreak "Plan A"
will be available for 2 months and if we can't raise the funds, we'll
move over to "Plan B". Development will start on (30-03-2020).

I'm an experienced programmer (I can handle the project design and implementation) but my business and marketing skills are poor (with 0 experience).
Even tho the project's goal is not profit, the structure is corporate and requires corporate and management skills as we'll be in close relations with both the government and the corporate world.

• International health organizations.
• City/Country/State authorities.
• World Health Organization
• Pharmaceutical companies.
• Non-profit, health related, charities.
• Research institutes.
• Any company that can and want to help us (with donations of goods/services mostly in the IT sector).