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Imagine this.
You are a busy vet nurse juggling multiple tasks simultaneously, from administering medications and conducting laboratory tests to assisting in surgeries. You can’t get everything done in time, so you end up working long hours. Stress, burnout, and mental health become an increasing challenge. And because of a global staff shortage mixed with a high influx of pet owners, and pets living longer, not only is this just a typical day for you, but the problem is worsening.
The industry demands a solution to support vet nurses.
What’s neXX is an AI-empowered, mobile application designed to help busy vet nurses save time with a focused agenda pulling data straight from the IDEXX vetsoft ecosystem.Furthermore, What’s neXX employs AI to automate the nurse shift handover process, saving 30-60 minutes every day.
Context switching, too many priorities to juggle
Shift hand-over process, which causes vet nurses to stay back an extra 30-60 minutes every day
AI-empowered copilot in your pocket. The most important upcoming tasks are highlighted in an agenda view, technically achieved by utilizing a direct integration with the wider IDEXX ecosystem of products. The AI chat feature can solve many problems, but most notably the aforementioned problem #2, automating the shift handover process. What's neXX will save nurses time and stress, and foster an efficient well-oiled vet practice. We presented a pitch deck with this idea to company executives and judges.
With the hackathon being a total of 2 days, and a team of only 2, we had to move extremely fast. We only spent 1 hour on problem definition and ideating. The customer problem I presented is real, based on work research.
I needed to get my UI finalized ASAP so my SWE can start working on it. I struck a balance between having clean and modern UI while sometimes reusing legacy components from work to save time.
I made a prototype incase we never finish our live production-ready demo. Thankfully, my SWE friend finished in time.
We came first in the Fortune 500 company-wide hackathon under the category "Most out of the box idea."
There were 5 categories and 40+ contestants. My software engineer colleague and I won a choice of experiences to select from. My company's CPO jokingly asked when this is going into production.