Welcome To CareBridge

Welcome To CareBridge!

CareBridge is a youth-led initiative to bridge healthcare accessibility gaps using AI technology. Why CareBridge? At least half of the world's population lacks access to quality healthcare, and approximately one hundred million people cannot afford high healthcare costs. Furthermore, at least two billion people worldwide experience visual impairments, making everyday tasks like navigating online maps a significant challenge. Sarah Zhou launched the CareBridge initiative because she believes that access to basic health care is a human right, regardless of someone's specific conditions.

About Sarah Zhou

Sarah Zhou is the founder and president of the CareBridge initiative. She is a student at the Castilleja School (Palo Alto, CA), who enjoys coding and is passionate about making a positive impact on the world by leveraging her coding skills. She is active member of multiple STEM and engineering clubs at her school. She is also the founder and president of the "AI for Good Causes" club, as she believes in AI's power in creating a more equitable healthcare future for everyone.

Besides her passion for AI and STEM, she is also a varsity and club volleyball player, while being a classic piano player for 8 years.

The CareBridge App

Demo & GitHub Project

To showcase AI's potential in tacking global health access chalelnges, Sarah Zhou built the CareBridge app, which is an AI-powered Android app designed to provide underrepresented communities with the tools and information to access basic healthcare. To see a 3.5-minute video demo of the CareBridge app, please see here. The source code for CareBridge is located https://github.com/sarahf-zh/my-android/tree/main/CareBridge. The app features:

A doctor-like ChatBot powered by AI offering preliminary diagnosis.
A set of medical advice cards with speech-to-text capability.
An embedded web browser showing three online pharmacies.
A customized map that is easily accessible for visually impaired users to find nearby healthcare providers.

Technologies Behind CareBridge

CareBridge leverages a variety of libraries and APIs to deliver its features:

Android SDK: Used for core application development, including UI design with Material Design components, map views, web views, speech to text, and view binding.
Third-Party Libraries: Utilizes libraries like Volley, Retrofit, Dagger, and Picasso for networking, dependency injection, and image loading.
Google Cloud Dialogflow ES API: Connects to a LLM (ChatGPT or Google Gemini) driven agent to power the "Doctor Bot" chat functionality.
Google Maps Places API: Enables the app to search for and display nearby health care providers based on the user's location.

Data Flow Diagrams

Below are CareBridge's Data Flow Diagrams: