AI-assisted healthcare prototype
SignalCare
AI-assisted triage with deterministic safety guardrails
Full-stack engineering, safety architecture, evaluation design
2026
Deployed educational prototype
OVERVIEW
A safety-first healthcare-triage prototype that uses AI for symptom extraction and summarization while deterministic rules retain authority over emergency escalation.
Educational prototype only. SignalCare does not diagnose, prescribe, replace emergency services, or claim clinical validation, certification, or real-world readiness.
Problem
Natural-language symptom descriptions are useful but inconsistent. A healthcare-oriented prototype also cannot let a generative model silently control high-stakes escalation.
Constraints
The system needed to demonstrate useful extraction and follow-up behavior without presenting itself as a diagnostic product or delegating emergency decisions to model output.
- Model output is always treated as untrusted input.
- Emergency red flags must remain deterministic and inspectable.
- Region-aware terminology must not be confused with medical validation.
Architecture
The React intake surface sends narrative input through a serverless boundary. Structured extraction and adaptive follow-ups sit beside a deterministic rules layer that owns emergency escalation and the explainable care-level result.
Key decisions
The central decision was separating language understanding from authority. The model can extract, summarize, and draft; deterministic rules can override and escalate.
Walkthrough
The flow covers natural-language intake, structured symptom extraction, adaptive follow-ups, region-aware terminology, an explainable care level, a provider-ready summary, exports, and an evaluation dashboard.
Security, safety & reliability
Red-flag decisions are outside the generative model. The interface exposes the deterministic override path and keeps the prototype's limitations visible.
Testing & evaluation
The included deterministic suite contains 33 cases. All 33 pass, with zero emergency misses in that local suite. These project-local results are not third-party or clinical validation.
Result
The prototype demonstrates how an AI-assisted interface can remain useful while deterministic verification retains control of high-risk outcomes.
Limitations
SignalCare is educational software. It is not a medical device, diagnosis tool, prescription system, emergency-care replacement, or clinically validated service.
Lessons
Reliability often comes from narrowing what a model is allowed to decide, not from writing a more persuasive prompt.
PROJECT-LOCAL PROOF
33 deterministic tests and 33 passing cases in the included suite
Zero emergency misses in that included deterministic suite
Untrusted model output cannot override deterministic escalation rules
INSPECT THE WORK
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