Re:Medical - The Definitive Drug Repurposing Tool

Inspiration

Helping lower-income citizens and people without health insurance find help for their illnesses.

What it does

The purpose of Re:Medical is to utilize AI technologies to identify drug repurposing potential within common household drugs to treat illnesses individuals may struggle to afford. This would be a step forward in bringing more affordable treatment options forward and enhancing efficiency in the market.

How we built it

To build the program, our team used multiple databases of information for the illnesses, drugs, treatments, symptoms, and properties. Additionally, the program will check for drugs that can't be used together as a separate storage of information as well. The console will take either the user's choice of illness or give an estimated diagnosis based on symptoms that the user would be prompted for. The console will now give recommendations based on which illness properties and drug treatments match, and display an advisory screen if two can't be taken together. The main mechanism of the project is the console cross-referencing the lists of the illness properties for the one chosen and drug treatment options.

Challenges we ran into

A major problem we faced was representing our work in the most efficient and logical method possible. Creating proper reasoning utilizing complex queries and general error handling.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are very glad that we were able to integrate a section to find what illness you might have. This would be able to help more people who don't have immediate access to a doctor and people can self-diagnose themselves before getting a full diagnosis.

What we learned

We learned how to adapt to a logic-based program and adjust everything with every new error that came across us.

What's next for Re:Medical - The Definitive Drug Repurposing Tool

The next step is to further the database information and increase the total knowledge of what each drug is used for and what each illness can be helped with.

Built With

• ciao
• prolog