Health Appointment

Health Appointment is a web application designed to facilitate booking medical appointments in Dakar. This project is built using Next.js and MongoDB, with features for both patients, secretaries and doctors.

The app is done using information of Senegalese hospitals and characters.

Table of Contents

• Preview
• Features
• Getting Started
• Usage
• Authentication
• Technologies Used
• Contributing
• Deployment

Preview

Features

• User registration and login
• Appointment booking and management
• Requests Management for secretaries

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Node.js v14.x or later
• MongoDB

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/Josh012006/Appointment-App.git

2. Install the dependencies:

   npm install

3. Set up environment variables: Create a .env.local file in the root of your project and add the following variables:

   EMAIL_USER=your_email
   EMAIL_PASSWORD=your_email_password_for_nodemailer_see_https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDIOBsMBEI0&t=707s
   MONGO_URI=your_mongo_uri
   NEXT_PUBLIC_DISTANCE_MATRIX_API_KEY=your_distance_matrix_api_from_https://distancematrix.ai/
   NEXT_PUBLIC_API_URL='http://localhost:3000'

4. Run the development server:

   npm run dev

   Open http://localhost:3000 with your browser to see the result.

Usage

Keeping track of appointments and consultations

Each user has a calendar to keep track of its planned appointments or consultations.

Booking Appointments

• Patients can book appointments with doctors.
• Doctors' secretaries can manage the requests.
• The Doctors can see the planned consultations and the patient's infos.

Authentication

Cookie-based Authentication

• User authentication is handled using cookies with the js-cookie library.

Technologies Used

• Next.js
• MongoDB
• Tailwind CSS
• Mongoose
• Nodemailer (for sending emails)
• bcrypt (for encrypting passwords)
• Redux Toolkit (for managing global state of the app)
• js-cookie (for handling cookies)

Contributing

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a new branch (git checkout -b feature/your-feature)
3. Make your changes
4. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some feature')
5. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/your-feature)
6. Create a new Pull Request

Possible Improvements

• More robust authentication
• Financing options
• Online consultations
• Security
• Rescheduling and Refunding
• Considering the target population (language and communication means)
• Keeping medical records in the database
• Integrating the possibility for the patient to see the availability of the doctor

Deployment

You can see the final product on https://health-appointment.vercel.app/

Hope you enjoy! And give a star 🌟💫 to the repository if possible!