SIH26047 · Ministry of Ayush · prototype

Your history,
ready before you
sit down.say hello.take a seat.walk in.

आपकी बात, आपकी भाषा में — डॉक्टर तक पहले पहुँचे।

MediKiosk listens to the patient in their own language, reads the papers they already carry, and puts a verified clinical history on the doctor's screen before the consultation begins.

Start as a patient Doctor console About four minutes, seven languages.
Step 1 · भाषा
अपनी भाषा चुनिए
हिन्दी ✓
English
ગુજરાતી
Step 3 · where it hurts
Point to the place
Step 5 · your token
A-17
Kayachikitsa · Room 4 · ~12 min
Kamla Devi, 62 QR ▣
AI summary
Kamla Devi, 62 · FA-17 · first visit
Bilateral knee pain, 8 months
History
Dull ache, worse mornings and on stairs; eases with rest. No trauma. said
Past
Type 2 diabetes, hypertension · HbA1c 8.4% paper
Medicines
Metformin 500 mg BD · Amlodipine 5 mg OD paper
ICD-10 M17.0NAMASTE SR11✓Verified by Dr Rao
Time back to the consultation

The history is taken before the door opens.

What the flow costs and what it gives back, from the demo cases.

0minat the kiosk, from choosing a language to holding a token slip
0minsaved per consultation, against taking the history verbally in the room
0languages, for the entire interview — not just the buttons
0paper forms. The patient's own papers are the input, not another form

Prototype estimates from the demo flow with the example cases. Not yet measured in a live OPD.

How a visit works

Six steps. The patient does the first five before they sit down.

Each one is a screen at the kiosk, in the patient's language, read aloud if they want.

1

Choose a language

Seven scripts on the first screen. From here on every word, prompt and option is in that language.

Patient · kiosk
2

Say who you are

Mobile, ABHA number or Aadhaar — a one-time code proves the phone. Returning patients are recognised; new ones get an ABHA and, if they like, a login.

Patient · kiosk
3

Answer by voice or tap

Chief complaint, then follow-ups written for it. Point to where it hurts on a body map. An Ayurvedic history if the hospital asks for it.

Patient · kiosk
4

Upload your documents, get your token

Hold each old report or prescription to the camera — it is read, dated and filed into a timeline, abnormal values flagged. Then a token slip prints with a QR code and your department.

Patient · kiosk
5

Your AI summary, read back to you

Everything you said and every paper you scanned becomes one clinical summary. The kiosk reads it back in your language; you confirm it and choose what the doctor may see — before anyone else reads a word.

Patient · kiosk
6

The doctor verifies and prescribes

The structured history is already on the console, sources beside every line. Accept or amend, see interaction warnings, push a FHIR record to the ABHA locker.

Doctor · console
What's inside

Every module the problem statement asks for.

Built means working in this deployment. Partial means working with a stated limit. The full list, including what is mocked and why, is on the about page.

Adaptive questioning

Four to five follow-ups written for the chief complaint — SOCRATES elements, tap-able options, "asked because you mentioned…".

Built

Voice, both ways

A mic on every open question and spoken next / back / repeat. Every screen reads itself aloud, in all seven languages, on any machine.

Built

Ayurveda history mode

Dashavidha Pariksha, Agni, Koshtha, Ahara-Vihara — all ten parameters, Vikriti kept apart from Prakriti.

Built

Red-flag triage

An emergency button or a red-flag answer: the token turns priority, the case tops the queue, the console sounds, staff get an SMS and email.

Built

Reads the paper

Printed and handwritten prescriptions, lab reports, discharge summaries — read, extracted, dated into a timeline, abnormal values in red.

Built

Drug interaction check

Scanned papers, reported medicines and today's prescription as it is typed — curated rules for allopathic and Ayurvedic pairs.

Built

Consent first, revocable

Four separate permissions, read aloud. "Withdraw consent" on the patient's dashboard locks every clinician out of that visit.

Built

FHIR R4 record

A real document bundle — Composition, Condition with ICD-10 and NAMASTE codes, Observations, Consent — downloadable from the console. The push awaits ABDM sandbox access.

Partial

The patient keeps a copy

A login ID sent by SMS and email; "My records" shows every visit, document, diagnosis and prescription, read-only, for good.

Built
Versus the OPD desk today

What changes when the history is taken at the kiosk.

Same patient, same doctor, same ten minutes. What each side gets to work with.

At the visit
Registration desk today
MediKiosk
History taken in the patient's own language
Whatever the desk speaks
Seven languages, spoken or tapped
Old reports and prescriptions digitised
Stay in the plastic bag
Read, extracted, filed by date
Doctor sees the history before the patient sits
Name, age, department
Structured, with sources beside each line
Red flags reach triage staff immediately
If someone notices in the queue
Top of queue, alarm, SMS and email
Drug interaction warning while prescribing
From memory
Against scanned papers and reported medicines
Consent recorded, explained aloud, revocable
A signature on a form, if that
Four permissions, withdrawable any time
The patient keeps their own record
The paper, until it is lost
Login by SMS and email; every visit, for good
Time on history-taking, per patient
10–15 min in the room
~3 min to verify what is already there
Questionnaires

The things you may ask first.

Is MediKiosk a medical device? Does it diagnose?

No. It takes a history and organises documents. Every clinical decision is the physician's; the console shows a draft to accept, amend or reject, and records who did which. It is a Smart India Hackathon prototype and not a live service.

Where does the patient's data go?

Voice never leaves the kiosk as audio — recognition runs in the browser and only text is kept. Document and summary text go to a model API over TLS. In a hospital deployment the same code points at a hospital-hosted model, so nothing leaves the building. Consent is granular and revocable from the patient's own dashboard.

Which languages, and how deep does it go?

Hindi, English, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu — the whole interview: every question, option, consent line and error message, plus spoken prompts. The physician's summary is always in English; the read-back to the patient is in their language.

Does it work when the Wi-Fi drops?

The kiosk shell — pages, scripts, language packs — is cached, so the screen never goes blank. Anything that needs the server (codes, summaries, the queue) waits for the network and says so, rather than showing stale data.

Are the ABHA numbers real?

Not yet. They are validated by format and generated locally; issuing real ones needs ABDM sandbox credentials, which are applied for. The FHIR R4 bundle that would be pushed to the ABHA locker is real and downloadable today — only the transport is mocked.

What if the patient cannot read, or cannot see well?

Audio-guided mode reads every screen, heading, hint and option aloud, and accepts spoken answers and spoken navigation. Large-text and high-contrast switches are on the accessibility screen. A screen left alone clears itself within two minutes.

Ready to see a visit run end to end?

Three minutes as a patient, then open the console as the doctor. The example cases load from the console if you want a full queue.

Prototype · SIH26047 · not a live service