ThalCare

Inspiration

🩸 About the Project: HemaLink – Smart Blood & Care Network for Thalassemia Warriors 🔥 What Inspired Us The inspiration for this project came from learning about the daily struggles Thalassemia patients face in India—particularly the exhausting hunt for blood donors, the emotional burden of managing chronic care, and the lack of awareness that leads to preventable births of affected children. We were especially moved by the work done by Blood Warriors and platforms like e-RaktKosh but noticed there was a missing link: an AI-driven, real-time ecosystem that brings patients, donors, and care providers together on one platform.

Our mission: Use technology not just to optimize, but to humanize the blood donation and patient care experience.

🧠 What We Learned We explored real-world data on Thalassemia prevalence, blood bank operations, and donor behavior.

We understood the gaps in existing platforms—many are either too clinical or too disconnected from the user experience.

We gained insights into predictive modeling, privacy-preserving patient systems, and human-centric UI design for sensitive healthcare use cases.

🛠️ How We Built It Our project was built as a web application with the following stack:

Frontend: Next.js for a fast, SEO-friendly and responsive UI, with TailwindCSS for easy styling.

Backend: Python (Flask) for APIs and integration logic.

Database: PostgreSQL with PostGIS for geolocation-aware donor-patient matching.

AI/ML: A custom ML model trained to predict donor availability based on historical donation frequency and blood demand cycles.

Integrations: APIs from e-RaktKosh for live stock data, and placeholder logic for future integration with Blood Warriors’ Blood Bridge.

Security: JWT-based auth, data encryption using AES, and field-level access control.

We also implemented:

Real-time matching engine using geolocation and blood type filtering.

Donor Score System to encourage regular donations with impact tracking.

Educational Chatbot prototype powered by OpenAI API to answer common Thalassemia queries.

Mobile-first responsive UI to ensure rural accessibility.

⚠️ Challenges We Faced Data access restrictions: Many blood bank APIs aren’t publicly available or lack documentation, so we had to simulate responses.

Matching complexity: Designing an efficient and fair donor matching algorithm that balances urgency, compatibility, and availability was tricky.

Balancing features vs simplicity: With a large vision, it was tempting to overbuild. We had to focus on what provided immediate user value during the hackathon window.

Privacy concerns: Managing sensitive medical and identity data required serious design and encryption considerations.

Rural inclusion: We had to keep the app lightweight and functional on low-bandwidth connections for users in remote areas.

🌱 What's Next? We aim to:

Onboard hospitals, NGOs, and blood banks as partners.

Integrate live donor history and hospital transfusion logs for better insights.

Build a full mobile app version with offline support and regional language localization.

Add a donation analytics dashboard for public health officials and community organizers.

Launch campaigns to increase awareness around preventive screening and thalassemia education.

Built With

• and
• docker
• e-raktkosh-api-(mocked)
• flask
• google-maps
• jwt
• next.js
• openai-api
• postgis
• postgresql
• python
• scikit-learn
• tailwind-css