MediTap wins Rep. Brian Mast’s 2024 Congressional App Challenge in Florida’s 21st District

When asked what inspired the creation of MediTap, the student said, “My mother works in the medical field, and one of the biggest issues that hospitals face is due to hospital readmissions, especially due to mismanagement of medications.  She has seen and discussed these issues with various staff members in the field, and they agree that misuse of medications is a large issue that plagues their hospitals. These unnecessary visits cost the US 100 to 300 billion dollars per year. Failure to use medications properly also poses a severe risk to patient safety.

Missing doses, overdoses, not following dietary restrictions and stopping medication early can lead to worsening conditions and new side effects. Often patients will go to the hospital with these conditions and neither the patient or the doctor will know the cause. Patients do not track what they take, when they take it and don’t often know why they take a certain medicine.

Both my parents are also on chronic medications, and my mother has struggled with taking her medications on time due to her busy schedule. When I heard about complications from her missing doses, it inspired me to try and develop a solution to help her and patients like her manage their medications so they never miss a dose, are educated about the medication they take, and stay on schedule as prescribed by their doctors to avoid complications from non-adherence. In return, this also helps the staff at hospitals take care of a patient because they can see logs of what the patient is on and can treat them appropriately.”