MedicAId

The idea

Health reminders are not hard because each task is complicated; they are hard because there are so many small things to remember across yourself, children, or older parents. For a hackathon, we asked whether medication reminders, appointments, prescriptions, and new test results could live in an ordinary WhatsApp conversation.

What we made

MedicAId connects WhatsApp to a simulated FSE. A user writes in Italian, and the bot can look up family records, create reminders, list appointments, or return a document. We used OpenAI and Gemini APIs to route natural-language requests. The health-record integration is mocked for the demo; it is not a claim of access to the real FSE.

In under five hours, we got the Django backend, Celery workers, WhatsApp webhook, model routing, caregiver permissions, and a deployed demo working together.

What the demo could do

• Medication reminders — automatic alerts, snooze support ("remind me in an hour")
• Appointment management — weekly/monthly overview, first available slot with a specific doctor
• Prescription expiry alerts — proactive notifications before expiry
• Documents & test results — notifies new results, sends PDF on request
• Caregiver mode — secure access to family members' data with role verification via phone number