Civic Companion

Inspiration

WVU medicine reccomended a chatbot and we expanded this idea

What it does

Civic Companion is a chatbot that utilizes the Gemini Api to help patients who are unfamiliar with the healthcare system in the United States to make informed decisions regarding their treatment based on their symptoms. The chatbot will grade the patients symptoms on severity level and give the patient reccomended steps to recive treatment. The reccomendations the chatbot will give will tell the patient about where they should get care, how insurance works, necessary documents the patient needs, and paperwork they need to fill out. There are further resouces on a sidbar menu next to the chatbox which will direct the patient to the nearest place of care the chatbot reccomends, a first aid guide, medication safety, emergency contacts, and mental health resouces. Note: the chatbot does not diagnose but only make reccomendations for the patient's next steps. All information including next steps, insurance, and patient rights is based on the information found in healthcare.gov and state.gov.

How we built it

We built it using Javascript, HTML, and Gemini API. We also used Gemini to help build the front end for the application

Challenges we ran into

We are new to JavaScript and HTML and it took us a very long time to just get html to work properly with JS.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are very proud that we learned a new language along with using API and putting all of it together to actually build something. We also got better at communicating because we asked for help so many times which I am very proud of.