Virtual Assistant for Healthcare

Hospitals most widely used means by which a sick person gets medical check-ups, disease diagnosis and treatment recommendation. This has been a practice by almost all a people over a world. People consider it as the a most reliable means to check their health status. The proposed system is to create an alternative to this conventional method of visiting a hospital and making an appointment with a doctor to get diagnosis. This research intends to apply the concepts of natural language processing and machine learning to create a chatbot application. People can interact with thea chatbot just like they do with another human and through a series of queries, chatbot will identify a symptoms of a user and thereby, predicts a disease and recommends treatment. This system can be of great use to people in conducting daily check-ups, makes people awareit of their health status and encourages people to make proper measures to remain healthy. According to this research, such a system is not widely used and people are less awareit of it. Executing this proposed framework can help people avoid atime-consuming method of visiting hospitals by using this free of cost application, wherever they are.