Grateful. Humbled. Encouraged.
Excited to share that our project, “Aegis Hindi Consent Companion,” has been shortlisted among the Top 28 submissions out of all global entries in a global healthcare AI hackathon.
As an anesthesiologist, this project was deeply personal to me.
Every day in healthcare, we meet patients who nod politely during consent discussions… yet may not fully understand the procedure, risks, or choices being explained — often because of language barriers, fear, limited health literacy, or the overwhelming nature of medical environments.
“Aegis” was built around a simple but important belief:
Patients deserve to truly understand before they consent.
What began as an idea around Hindi-language informed consent gradually evolved into something much larger — a multilingual AI-assisted framework that could potentially support communication across regional and even international languages. During development, I even experimented with Spanish, and it was exciting to see how adaptable the approach could become.
What makes this recognition especially meaningful is not just the shortlist itself, but the realization that clinically grounded, human-centered healthcare problems are being noticed in global AI conversations.
Medicine teaches us that technology matters.
But trust, understanding, and communication matter just as much.
Grateful to the organizers, judges, mentors, collaborators, and everyone working toward safer and more inclusive healthcare systems.
Looking forward to learning, building, and contributing further in this space.
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