Ably Virtual Therapy Space

Inspiration

Inspired by the usefulness and upward trend of using AI to uncover and ease patient/therapist workflows, by getting symptoms upfront first, so that therapists can use these symptom data to make recommendations.

What it does

This app allows a client and their therapist to enter the same virtual space to have their session. This session is assisted by a symptom checker (leveraging on Infermedica API -- to be implemented) which will ask patients a list of questions. The therapist will then use the data from the symptom checker to make recommendations to the client in the space.

How we built it

Using Ably Spaces SDK and Infermedica API (future work) to build out the symptom checker into the chat app. Therapist and client enter the same Ably space and interact with each other.

Challenges we ran into

Setting up the Spaces SDK and facing rate limits very early on, and making sense of the Ably API documentation. There is a lot of useful documentation but there were repeats and sometimes inconsistency in the usages.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Learning about the Spaces SDK and working with health APIs.

What we learned

Building out a flow for virtual therapy is not easy. Requires some thinking in terms of data flow and order of question asking.

What's next for healthcare bot

Saved history for the space and data security.

Built With

• ably
• infermedica
• nextjs
• spaces