LionsMed
Crowdsourced real-time clinic data for New Yorkers, vital in a disaster.
Lions-Med is a crowdsourced network of real-time clinic data for New Yorkers—useful every day, essential during disaster. When a disaster hits NYC, the headline crisis is the ER, but the quieter emergency is in the medical “grey zone”: people managing chronic illness who can suddenly be cut off from care—skipped chemo, prescriptions running out, clinics quietly closing—while Google Maps and clinic websites lag behind what’s actually happening on the ground.
Locals report what they see in real time—open clinics, wait times, medication and prescription stock, urgent needs—with every post carrying a timestamp, source, and trust signal, while AI fills the gaps from clinic sites and public updates around the clock. The idea is to build the network through everyday use (avoiding long waits, comparing care options, finding medications) so that the community, the data, and the trust layer are already in motion by the time a storm comes.
We start in Morningside Heights—a tight healthcare ecosystem around Columbia where students share providers, insurance constraints, and a small set of nearby clinics—as a proof of concept, then scale across the five boroughs.
Built for Designing for Disaster Recovery with Prof. Harry West (Spring 2026), with Yuchen Guo, Daphne Tsai, and Ana Vizitiv, and presented at the PRI Innovation Forum in New York City.