Cura Rx

Cure-A-Reaction, Care with Compassion

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Inspiration

For many people, especially those struggling with mental health challenges, getting prescribed medication is just the beginning of a much longer, more complex journey. The real challenge comes after—the waiting. Days and weeks can pass before the next doctor’s appointment, but for someone facing anxiety, depression, or mood disorders, those hours and days in between can feel endless. Small changes in mood, medication effects, or side effects need immediate attention. Yet, in an industry that often operates on weeks, it’s difficult to get the right support when it’s needed most.

This problem is far from rare—up to 50% of patients struggle with taking their medications as prescribed, which poses a serious issue for treatment effectiveness. Among those over 65, approximately 28% of medical admissions are linked to drug-related injuries. These statistics are more than just numbers; they represent real people, each with their own unique challenges in managing their health. For these individuals, the gap between patient and doctor isn’t just frustrating—it can be dangerous. Healthcare providers often lack a comprehensive understanding of what factors influence a patient’s ability to adhere to their medication, which complicates their ability to deliver truly personalized care.

Too often, patients are left to collect their thoughts in disorganized ways—jotting down notes in a small notebook, struggling to recall how they felt days or even weeks ago when their doctor finally asks. But health is dynamic, and life changes quickly. The challenge isn’t just about prescribing the right medication—it’s about understanding the everyday barriers that prevent patients from sticking to their treatment plans.

This is where Cura Rx comes in. Cura Rx is designed to bridge that gap between patients and doctors, offering real-time insights and support, ensuring no one has to navigate their health journey alone. Because every day matters—not just the days in between appointments.

What it does:

Imagine a world where you find the right dosage and medication for mental health in days, not weeks. Managing your health should feel natural, intuitive, and almost effortless. Cura Rx is here to make that vision a reality. 🌟

Cura Rx: The Medication Tracker of the Future, Focused on Mental Health Care

  • Effortless Logging: Upon logging in, you're just a few clicks away from managing your medication intake. Simply tap on the meds you've taken for the day, and you’re set. But Cura Rx goes beyond just tracking—it becomes your personal health assistant, guiding you through the process.

  • Comprehensive Check-ins: Once you’ve logged your medication, it's time for a quick check-in. We believe health is more than numbers—it’s about how you're feeling in the moment. With our diagnostic questions, Cura Rx asks the right things: "How are you feeling today?" 💬 It’s like having a caring health companion at your side, listening and understanding.

  • Voice Reflection with Hume: After your check-in, it's time to speak your mind. Literally. Using Hume's emotion AI, Cura Rx analyzes the tone and emotion behind your words, going beyond just what you say, to how you’re feeling when you say it. Did today’s dose leave you feeling off? Are you anxious about side effects? Cura Rx listens and understands. Hume decodes these emotional cues, giving you a personalized, empathetic report every time. 💡💖

  • Advanced Text-to-Speech and Intent Recognition with Deepgram: We know that sometimes speaking out loud can be the best way to process your thoughts. With Deepgram, Cura Rx provides a smooth, advanced Text-to-Speech (TTS) feature. It helps summarize your feelings, translating your spoken words into clear, concise summaries. Want to reflect on how your medication is affecting you over time? Cura Rx turns your voice into insight. 🗣️🔊

  • Medication Expertise at Your Fingertips: Have questions about your meds? Are you curious about side effects, dosage, or FDA guidelines? Ask Perplexity AI or our contextually-enriched llama model running on Hyperbolic, integrated seamlessly with the FDA drug database embeddings. It’s like having a doctor, pharmacist, and researcher in your pocket. Just ask, and get detailed, trustworthy answers in seconds. 🧠💊

  • Empowering Doctors with Real-Time Data: After gathering all this rich, personalized data, Cura Rx doesn’t stop there. It transforms these insights into a patient monitoring dashboard—a powerful tool for your doctor. Your medication history, symptoms, emotional health, and even your voice reflections are all bundled into a single, easy-to-read report. This keeps your doctor up-to-date, helping them provide more informed and personalized care than ever before. 🚀👨‍⚕️👩‍⚕️

Cura Rx isn’t just about taking meds—it’s about making sure you’re cared for, in every sense of the word. From logging your medication to sharing real-time emotional insights with your doctor, Cura Rx is redefining what it means to manage your health. 💡 Your health matters, and Cura Rx ensures that both you and your healthcare team are always on the same page.

Welcome to the future of medication tracking—where care runs deep, and you’re never alone on your journey.

How we built it

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Backend

At the core of Cura Rx is a robust, secure backend built on FastAPI, hosted seamlessly on Vercel, and powered by a PostgreSQL database through Supabase. This architecture is designed with future-proof security and scalability in mind, ensuring that sensitive patient data remains safe at every step.

Our backend hosts an extensive database of FDA drug facts, deeply embedded into the system to offer users unparalleled access to medication expertise. Perplexity AI is integrated to leverage both this database and the user’s medication history, enabling real-time, context-aware answers to complex drug-related questions.

During the patient check-in process, audio is sent to Hume’s AI for sophisticated sentiment analysis, providing an in-depth understanding of emotional health based on tone and mood. Simultaneously, Deepgram processes speech using its advanced TTS capabilities to offer insights from the patient’s own voice. Once processed, this rich data is passed to OpenAI, which generates a thoughtful and comprehensive summary for both the patient and the healthcare provider.

This backend architecture powers the entire Cura Rx ecosystem—fueling both the patient-facing app and the doctor’s monitoring dashboard—ensuring a seamless flow of information between all stakeholders. This way, doctors are continuously updated with real-time insights, empowering them to deliver more personalized care based on the most up-to-date information.

Challenges we ran into

Running Inference on Hyperbolic: Coming from an era of API calls, loading huggingface transformers and understanding prompt masking was deeply enriching since it encouraged me to think deeper than prompt engineering.

Multimodal Context-Awareness: The built-in system prompts on Hume EV2 are amazing, but they are made for a very specific use case. We built an in-house RAG using a llama model and the FDA's Drug Database to add crucial information about the medications and patients into its context. This required multiple back and forth with Agentic AIs spanning different modalities. We're happy that we were able to customize the model and even increase its accuracy with QLoRA fine-tuning to ask specific questions back to the patient.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Real-Time Patient-Doctor Connection We built a system that closes the gap between patients and doctors by offering real-time updates through our patient monitoring dashboard. Doctors can now see up-to-date information on their patients’ medication adherence, emotional state, and health progress without waiting for the next appointment.

FDA Drug Database Embedding for Contextual AI By embedding the FDA drug database directly into our backend, we've created an intelligent system where patients can ask Perplexity AI drug-related questions and receive accurate, reliable answers instantly. This puts vital information directly in the hands of patients, empowering them to take control of their treatment.

Empathetic Health Tracking Cura Rx’s use of sentiment analysis through Hume allows us to humanize healthcare, turning check-ins into more than just a routine task. By analyzing patient emotions, we provide personalized reports that truly reflect how they feel—not just what they say.

End-to-End Secure and Scalable Backend We built a secure, scalable backend using FastAPI, hosted on Vercel, and utilizing Supabase for data management. This ensures all sensitive patient information is handled with the highest level of security while keeping our platform flexible and ready for future growth.

What we learned

Throughout the development of Cura Rx, one of the most important lessons we learned was the delicate balance between AI-powered insights and the need for trustworthy, robust data. With the integration of AI systems like Hume for emotional sentiment analysis and Deepgram for advanced voice transcription, it became clear that while these technologies offer incredible capabilities, their effectiveness relies heavily on a foundation of reliable and structured data.

We realized that for Cura Rx to truly be useful and holistic, it couldn’t rely solely on the soft data of voice analysis and emotion detection. While these insights are invaluable in understanding how patients feel, they must be complemented by hard data—such as structured medical facts from the FDA drug database and the use of multiple-choice diagnostic questions during patient check-ins. This combination of empirical data and emotional context allows for a more well-rounded and holistic view of the patient’s health, making the AI insights not just intelligent, but also trustworthy and actionable for both patients and doctors.

Ensuring the quality and reliability of AI meant integrating these two types of data in harmony. By coupling hard facts with emotional understanding, we’ve built a system that doctors can trust to provide accurate, personalized care—where AI doesn't just interpret emotions, but does so grounded in a context of solid medical data, making Cura Rx a truly powerful tool for better health outcomes.

What's next for Cura Rx

Phase 1: Enhancing AI Capabilities and Expanding Features

-Refining AI through Prompt Engineering: We’ll focus on refining the prompt engineering process to ensure that our AI models (Hume, Deepgram, Perplexity) produce even more accurate and personalized insights for each patient.

-Honing Data for Better Insights: We will continue to refine how we collect and process both hard (FDA drugs, symptoms) and soft data (voice and sentiment analysis) to create more comprehensive insights that can truly help improve patient outcomes.

-Testing and Integrating New AI Models: As AI models evolve, we’ll actively test and incorporate new models that enhance both the quality of emotional analysis and the depth of medical insights.

-Expanding to Support More Diseases and Medications: Cura Rx will expand to track a broader range of conditions, including chronic diseases, mental health disorders, and even supplement tracking.

-Supporting Multiple Languages: To increase accessibility, we will work on supporting multiple languages to serve a more diverse global population.

-iOS and Android Support: We plan to develop fully functional native apps for both iOS and Android, ensuring all patients and doctors can benefit from Cura Rx on their preferred devices.

Phase 2: Scaling and Entering the Healthcare System

  • *Integrating into Doctor’s Offices: * We’ll work towards integrating Cura Rx into clinics and doctor’s offices to enhance patient-doctor communication directly through the platform. This includes building trust by focusing on medical data security and ensuring compliance with healthcare privacy standards like HIPAA. Scaling the Solution for Larger Healthcare Systems: As we scale Cura Rx, we’ll aim to partner with larger healthcare providers, hospitals, and clinics to make the app an essential part of everyday patient monitoring.

  • *Enhancing Data Security and Privacy: * We will continue to prioritize scalable, secure solutions for patient data, ensuring that as Cura Rx grows, it remains compliant with the most rigorous data security protocols in the medical industry.

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