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@article{197571,
        author = {Dr. MK Jayanthi Kannan and Gurinder Singh and Rishi Kumar and Shantanu Pandit and Jatin Guleria},
        title = {HealthLink: Design and Implementation of an AI-Powered Community Healthcare Ecosystem for Accessible and Equitable Care},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {12},
        number = {11},
        pages = {7699-7707},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=197571},
        abstract = {In today's fast-paced world, timely medical help can save lives, but delays often happen due to poor coordination between patients, clinics, and pharmacies. HealthLink is an AI-powered healthcare system that connects patients, doctors, and pharmacies in real time. It uses AI to check symptoms, send SOS emergency alerts with live location tracking, and notify nearby clinics and pharmacies. The system also provides role-based dashboards for patients, doctors, admins, and pharmacies. HealthLink aims to reduce emergency response time [3], improve healthcare access, and ensure secure data sharing. At its core, HealthLink leverages Artificial Intelligence to provide an intuitive symptom checker, enabling users to assess potential conditions before consulting a physician. The system distinguishes itself with a critical SOS emergency feature, which transmits live location data and alerts to the nearest registered clinics and pharmacies within seconds. This addresses the intrinsic challenge of delayed emergency response prevalent in conventional systems. By amalgamating role-based dashboards for patients, healthcare providers, pharmacy managers, and system administrators, HealthLink creates a comprehensive ecosystem tailored specifically for community healthcare needs. It addresses the fragmentation of medical data by ensuring secure data sharing through JWT, OAuth, and AES-256 encryption protocols. Furthermore, HealthLink doesn't merely stop at providing a communication platform; it embodies a commitment to reliability and scalability. With optimized hardware and software configurations utilizing Docker containerization and microservices architecture, HealthLink guarantees a seamless user experience even under peak emergency loads. In essence, HealthLink emerges as a transformative force in healthcare connectivity, aiming to reduce emergency response time, improve healthcare access, and ultimately enrich the well-being of the community.},
        keywords = {AI healthcare, symptom checker, emergency response, SOS alerts, real-time tracking, telemedicine, role-based dashboard, NLP, healthcare connectivity.},
        month = {April},
        }