CareNavigator - PromptWars Submission

The Chosen Vertical 🏥

Healthcare

Approach and Logic 🤖

CareNavigator is a "Smart Healthcare Triage & Organization Assistant." It addresses the overwhelming nature of navigating healthcare by doing three things:

1. Medical Translation: Uses AI logic to translate complex medical jargon or lab results into plain, easy-to-understand English.
2. Specialist Actioning: Intelligently identifies what type of doctor the user needs based on their query and seamlessly integrates with Google Maps to locate the nearest relevant specialist.
3. Appointment Management: Generates dynamic Google Calendar integration links to help the user schedule and remember their follow-ups.

How the Solution Works ⚙️

• The app is a lightweight, responsive Web App (HTML/CSS/JS) ensuring the repo stays well under 1MB.
• UI/UX: It features a calming, accessible design (high contrast, readable fonts) to accommodate elderly or visually impaired users (hitting the Accessibility evaluation criteria).
• Security & Responsibility: The assistant enforces strict disclaimers stating it is not a medical professional. All input data is processed locally/temporarily in the browser without being stored in a database, ensuring PHI (Personal Health Information) privacy.
• Google Services: Meaningfully integrates Google Maps (Location mapping) and Google Calendar (Event scheduling).

Assumptions Made 🤔

• It is assumed the user has a Google Account (for the Calendar integration to work).
• It is assumed the user will share their location with their browser for the 'near me' Maps functionality to be accurate.
• This prototype supports a real Gemini API key via VITE_GEMINI_API_KEY in .env. The fallback simulation covers 10 medical specialties for demo purposes.

Security Note 🔒

• API Key: In this browser prototype, the Gemini API key is loaded client-side via Vite's env system. In a production deployment, this would be proxied through a secure backend (e.g., a serverless function) to prevent client-side key exposure. This is a known and intentional trade-off for this prototype's simplicity.
• Privacy: No user-entered health data is transmitted to any third-party server other than the Google Gemini API (when a key is provided). All fallback logic runs entirely in the browser.