HealthU is a health care support chatbot aimed at providing people access to authentic and precise information about specific health conditions in a quick and easy manner.
HealthU is built on the Django web framework. Its core algorithm is built out of a unique python library called 'chatterbot'. Chatterbot allows us to modify and work in infinitely modifiable ways with our chatbot algorithm. We used chatterbot's logic adapters to match the user's question with our hardcoded responses to queries regarding healthcare.
Unfortunately, we were unable to deploy the frontend implementation of the project due to a version error but you can find the code for the full frontend deployment in our GitHub repository.
Inspiration
Healthcare is a part of life we all consider to be something we are entitled to it is our right to have access to healthcare whenever we need it. Quality accessible healthcare is a major problem in rural areas, and we wanted to solve this problem by making healthcare more accessible.
Challenges we ran into
One of the primary challenges we faced during this project was that we had very little experience working on Django. Another challenge that we faced was adjusting our development environment to the libraries' requirements.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are proud that our chatbot can deliver the expected performance as our vision. Even though we were working in a time-bound environment, we were able to build a prototype of our bot. As this was our first hackathon, we take great pride in the fact that we were able to bring our ideas to life.
What we learned
A significant takeaway for us from this hackathon is the skill of time management. I believe we all were effectively able to channelise our productivity to achieve this milestone.
We all gained crucial experience working on Django and we look forward to implementing this knowledge into different projects to solve other pressing problems of the world. We also figured that learning and implementing at the same time can be pretty fun but also quite challenging as you keep running into bugs every step of the way.
What's next for HealthU
HealthU has great scope for further deployment. We have identified several spots of improvement for this bot. For starters, we can implement a user-friendly User Interface, which makes the bot interactive and easy to use for the end consumers. Furthermore, our current project is static, we can work on developing a dynamic solution for this service, by connecting our application to authentic sources of medical information, by using their APIs and copyrights. Furthermore, we aim to integrate multiple other features into this project such as live doctor chat, nearby healthcare support centre details and the latest medical newsletters
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