HealthChat

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example conversation on healthchat

Inspiration

As the son of two Asian Immigrants, I understand how language barriers can effect people in a new country. I noticed that many people in my community didn't understand English, often leaving them confused after trips to the doctors office. As a result, I wanted to create a tool for my community in hospitals and other health clinics, so that they can get access to information about clinics, as well have access to medical information.

What it does

HealthChat is a tool for immigrants & others who may not speak english well to get access to essential healthcare information in their language, through help of a Chatbot trained on example data from a health clinic and on information on bones, diseases, and more.

How I built it

To build HealthChat, first I had to do all of the steps, from finding data sources, pre-processing, and training the models. Then, I used Google Vertex AI to build transformer models to switch between a clinic specific agent, health related agent, and general generative AI agent.

Challenges I ran into

The challenge that I ran into was on making the transformer model to switch between the 3 different agents that were made, and I solved this through giving the model test cases, and fixing the logic or "invocation" for each of the agents.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

The accomplishment that I am proud of was sticking to the goal I set to build the project in 72 hours, which I did despite all of the challenges.

What I learned

I learnt that it is important to find problems that you've seen firsthand, and then think from the perspective of the user to understand what problems they would have, and then fix the problem as best as you can.

What's next for HealthChat

I want to give this website to others, who I know could be facing a language barrier, and collect feedback from them. After a few iterations, I want to work with a hospital in my area to release a beta-version of the idea. With this, I will be able to achieve my goal of bringing quality in healthcare.