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ARE YOU AT RISK- AI Assisted Preventive Medication Safety Application
Submitted
May 22, 2026, 5:40 AM
Last Updated
May 22, 2026, 5:40 AM
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This project was recognized for outstanding achievement in the Healthcare category at Catalyst 2K26.
Problem Statement
Millions of people consume medicines daily without understanding how those medicines interact with each other, with food, or with essential nutrients. This problem becomes more dangerous for chronic patients, elderly individuals, and users taking multiple medications simultaneously. Existing healthcare systems mainly focus on treatment after complications occur, while preventive medication awareness remains highly neglected. Common users often cannot understand complex medical information, and healthcare professionals lack a unified quick-access platform for interaction awareness, nutritional depletion risks, and comparative medication analysis. This creates avoidable health risks, unsafe self-medication practices, and reduced patient safety. There is a strong need for an intelligent, accessible, preventive healthcare platform that simplifies medication safety awareness for both consumers and healthcare professionals.
Solution & AI Usage
ARE YOU AT RISK is an AI-assisted preventive healthcare platform designed to improve medication safety awareness through intelligent drug analysis. The application provides single-drug and multiple-drug interaction analysis, food and nutrient conflict detection, barcode-based medicine scanning, anthropometric BodyMetric assessment, downloadable PDF reports, and personalized preventive guidance. The platform works in two modes: Non-Medico Mode for normal users with simplified explanations, and Medico Mode for healthcare professionals with advanced technical insights. AI is used for intelligent medicine matching, OCR-based ID verification, barcode recognition, risk interpretation, report generation, document analysis, and personalized preventive recommendations. The system integrates trusted healthcare databases such as DrugBank, RxNorm, OpenFDA, and DailyMed to deliver structured, research-backed healthcare awareness in an accessible and user-friendly manner.
Full Description
ARE YOU AT RISK is an AI-assisted preventive healthcare and medication safety platform designed to improve awareness regarding drug interactions, nutritional risks, and safe medicine management. Millions of people consume medicines daily without understanding hidden drug-drug, drug-food, and drug-nutrient interactions that may lead to preventable complications, especially in chronic patients, elderly individuals, and users taking multiple medications simultaneously.
The platform provides an intelligent Single Drug Analysis system where users can search medicines manually or scan medicine barcodes/QR codes to instantly receive structured medication safety reports. These reports include interaction awareness, food conflicts, nutrient depletion risks, timing guidance, and preventive precautionary measures presented in a simplified and visually understandable format. Professional PDF reports can also be downloaded and stored securely in report history.
A major innovation of the platform is the Multiple Drug Analyzer, which allows users to select multiple medicines simultaneously and generate a comparative interaction analysis. The system evaluates cumulative medication burden, possible interaction risks, nutritional depletion concerns, timing conflicts, and lifestyle precautions using trusted pharmaceutical databases such as DrugBank, RxNorm, OpenFDA, and DailyMed.
The application also includes an advanced BodyMetric feature that performs anthropometric and metabolic risk assessment using body measurements such as height, weight, waist circumference, hip circumference, and other body composition parameters. Based on these measurements, the platform generates visual metabolic health assessment reports with downloadable PDF summaries.
The platform operates in two modes: Non-Medico Mode and Medico Mode. Non-Medico Mode explains medication information in simple language for common users, while Medico Mode provides deeper scientific interpretation and technical insights for healthcare professionals, researchers, pharmacists, dietitians, and medical students.
Additional features include secure authentication, profile management, notification systems, report history storage, personalized reminders, and responsive healthcare-focused UI/UX design powered by Supabase backend integration.
AI technologies are integrated for intelligent medicine matching, OCR-based institutional ID verification, barcode recognition, document analysis, personalized risk interpretation, and automated report generation. The goal of ARE YOU AT RISK is not to replace healthcare professionals, but to serve as an intelligent preventive healthcare companion that improves medication awareness and reduces avoidable healthcare risks through accessible healthcare technology.



