Health Look Up

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Inspiration

Searching online for medical help can be daunting at times, you could only have symptoms of a normal cold, but the information online tends to blow it out of proportion. The running joke is that searching for your symptoms like "small headache", the outcome would be them (being the internet) telling you that you have cancer. So, our team set out to solve these problems!

What it does

Our web application called "Health Look Up" scraps the web for medical information regarding the symptoms you have, using a Natural Language Processing (NLP) library, we filter out the possible unrelated searches and show you the best and most accurate links and information from credible sources. Other than that, in case of an emergency, you can also get the location of the nearest hospital from you and instructions on how to get there from your current location. We also have exercise recommendations for the user to do in order to keep fit, you can view how to do the exercises in AR by scanning the QR code with your phone.

How I built it

Using Flask ask the web framework, along with web scraping libraries like requests and beautifulsoup4. Scraping the internet will get you some unrelated results, so I used fuzzywuzzy, an NLP library to filter them out. Mapbox to show an interactive map and EchoAR to show the exercises in AR!

What's next?

To add more credible sources alongside WebMD and Harvard Health, and also add more exercises so that the user can follow along in AR. Finally, the design currently is very simple and straightforward, we can make it look even nicer but make it stay simple to use.