Urgent and Emergency Care: An Academic Application System Case Study

During the 1st Semester of 2018, at the Brazilian Aeronautics Institute of Technology (Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica – ITA), a successful Collaborative Interdisciplinary Problem-Based Learning (Co-IPBL) experience took place. At that time, more than 20 undergrad and graduate students from 3 different courses within just 17 academic weeks had the opportunity of conceptualizing, modeling, developing, and testing a Computer System based upon Big Data, Blockchain Hyperledger, Micro-services, and other emerging technologies for government and private organizations. This Co-IPBL was performed with the participation of a medical technical team from the Hospital of Clinics at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Sao Paulo focusing in Urgency and Emergency Care. This research work was stored in a Google site and implemented as a Proof of Concept (PoC), by using emerging technologies such as the Blockchain Hyperledger. It represents one example of how to address the old problem of teaching, learning, designing, and implementing complex intelligent systems to solve health care problems, by collaboratively working with medical technical teams facing real problems of Urgency and Emergency Health Care.