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Day 17 of Building GoDavaii: Why Language, Not Data, Is Our Hardest Interaction Problem

DEV Community·GoDavaii - Advanced Health AI·27 days ago
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Drug interactions are not actually a data problem. Most people, especially in tech, assume it's about having the biggest database of compounds and their known clashes. While a robust dataset is foundational, the real challenge for GoDavaii, India's Advanced Health AI, wasn't just compiling that initial data. I built our core drug interaction checker in about three weeks, focusing on the underlying graph database and the initial algorithms. But then the actual work began. The vast majority of my time after those initial three weeks wasn't spent adding more obscure drug combinations or refining graph traversals. It was ensuring that a query about common medicines in Tamil, or a specific combination of Ayurvedic and allopathic remedies described in Punjabi, would yield accurate, culturally relevant, and medically sound interaction alerts. The Hidden Complexity of Indian Medical Language English-first health AIs like Epocrates or Medscape solve a specific problem set.…

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