CAREPATH–Intelligent Healthcare Service Navigation

Inspiration

Patients often struggle to find the right healthcare facility for a specific service. A facility may provide the required service, but its appointment availability, operating hours, distance, or accessibility may not match the patient's needs. Existing platforms mainly provide search, location, service, appointment, and facility information, but patients may still need to compare multiple factors themselves. :contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1}

This inspired us to create CAREPATH — an intelligent healthcare service navigation and coordination platform focused on connecting patients with the right service, right facility, and right time.

What it does

CAREPATH converts a patient's healthcare request into specific requirements and intelligently matches those requirements with suitable healthcare facilities.

For example, a patient may need an MRI tomorrow morning, within 10 km, with wheelchair accessibility and an available appointment. CAREPATH considers these requirements together instead of treating them as separate searches. :contentReference[oaicite:2]{index=2}

The system then provides suitable options using intelligent matching and a suitability score, followed by coordination and navigation. If facility conditions or availability change, dynamic re-matching can help identify another suitable option. :contentReference[oaicite:3]{index=3}

How we built it

We designed CAREPATH around a requirement-driven workflow:

Patient Requirement
Requirement Extraction
Facility Search
Intelligent Matching
Suitability Score
Coordination & Navigation
Dynamic Re-Matching

This workflow allows multiple patient requirements to be considered together while identifying suitable healthcare facilities. :contentReference[oaicite:4]{index=4}

Challenges we ran into

The main challenge was moving beyond basic healthcare search and designing a system that can handle multiple requirements simultaneously. Distance, service availability, appointment timing, operating hours, and accessibility can all affect whether a facility is actually suitable for a patient. :contentReference[oaicite:5]{index=5}

Another challenge was designing a matching workflow that can adapt when facility availability or conditions change.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We developed a clear concept for intelligent healthcare service navigation that focuses on the complete patient requirement rather than only searching for a hospital or service.

CAREPATH brings requirement extraction, intelligent matching, suitability scoring, coordination, navigation, and dynamic re-matching together in one workflow.

What we learned

We learned how to convert a real-world healthcare coordination problem into a structured technology solution. We also learned the importance of understanding complete user requirements and designing a matching process that considers multiple factors together.

What's next for CAREPATH–Intelligent Healthcare Service Navigation

Our future direction is to extend CAREPATH with richer healthcare facility information, real-time availability, improved accessibility data, smarter matching, dynamic re-matching, and better coordination and navigation capabilities.