Malaysia Medical Intelligent Assistant - MyMIA
Team consisting of ML engineer (NER/RAG, MLflow), health‑data analyst (SQL/Python), full‑stack dev (React/Node), data/dashboard specialist (Tableau/PowerBI), and StoreHub Sr. Product Designer focused on healthcare GenAI.
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Project Description
Project Overview
- Purpose: MyMIA is an AI-powered clinical assistant that eliminates administrative burden for Malaysian doctors, allowing them to focus on patient care instead of paperwork.
- Users: Malaysian healthcare professionals, primarily doctors in public hospitals and clinics who currently spend 20-40% of their time on manual documentation and system fragmentation.
- Core Problem: Our survey of Malaysian doctors revealed they waste 2.5 hours daily navigating 3-6 disparate systems, manually transcribing data, and completing handwritten documentation - time stolen from patient care.
Proposed Solution
MyMIA provides four core capabilities:
- Unified Patient Dashboard: Consolidates fragmented patient data into one intelligent interface
- AI Clinical Assistant: Patient-specific chatbot answering queries about medical history and lab results
- Intelligent Patient Synthesis: Auto-generates comprehensive patient summaries from scattered records
- Voice-First Documentation: Converts natural language dictation into structured clinical notes
Workflow
- Doctor enters patient IC number → MyMIA displays unified patient record
- AI instantly synthesizes patient summary from historical data
- Doctor asks contextual questions: “Does this patient have heart issues?”
- During consultation, voice recording auto-categorizes into clinical notes, diagnosis, and treatment plans
- All documentation updates in real-time across the unified system
Measurable Impact
Based on our doctor survey:
- Admin Time Reduction: From 2.5 hours to under 1 hour daily
- Clinical Time Gained: 1.5 hours daily returned to patient care - nearly 8 hours per week
- System Efficiency: Eliminates juggling 3-6 different systems through unified platform
- Error Reduction: Voice documentation eliminates manual transcription errors
- Risk Mitigation: Addresses medico-legal documentation concerns through better digital documentation and audit trails
User Experience & Demo Steps
- Patient Search: Enter IC → instant comprehensive patient view
- AI Summary: Auto-generated patient overview appears with medical history
- Contextual Q&A: Ask “Patient’s diabetes control status?” → get instant, cited response
- Voice Documentation: Speak during consultation → text auto-categorizes into sections
- Seamless Integration: All updates sync across unified platform
Validation & Feedback
- Primary Research: Surveyed 8 Malaysian doctors across specialties and locations
- Pain Point Validation: 100% confirmed system fragmentation and manual documentation issues
- Solution Alignment: Features directly address top complaints (time waste, duplication, medico-legal risk)
Vision: Purpose-built for Malaysian public healthcare reality (system fragmentation, manual workflows, infrastructure constraints)
Creativity:
- Unified Patient Intelligence: Consolidates fragmented patient records into one searchable platform
- Conversational Patient History: AI chatbot that instantly answers doctor queries about patient history and lab results
- Intelligent Documentation: Voice-to-text that automatically categorizes into clinical notes, diagnosis, and treatment sections
- Patient Summary: AI auto-generates patient summaries from fragmented records enables doctors to understand patient condition quicker
- Impact: Transforms fundamental doctor-patient interaction by reclaiming clinical tim
User Experience
- Intuitive Design: Single IC search → complete patient view
- Wow Factor: Voice-to-structured documentation with Malaysian English processing
- Seamless Journey: Eliminates system switching and manual transcription
Technical Implementation
- Functionality: Working prototype with core AI features deployed
- Innovation: Multi-modal AI (voice, text, contextual understanding)
- Intelligence: Patient-specific chatbot with medical context awareness
- Architecture: Hybrid cloud design for Malaysian infrastructure reality
Scalability & Deployability
Technical Scalability:
- Cloud-native architecture supporting thousands of concurrent users
- API-first design for integration with existing EMR systems
- Multi-language support for Malaysian healthcare diversity
Implementation Pathway:
- Phase 1: Pilot with MoH in selected hospitals
- Phase 2: Integration with Ministry’s EMR rollout
- Phase 3: Nationwide deployment across public healthcare
Sustainability Model:
- Open-source core components
- Malaysian data sovereignty compliance
- Long-term partnership approach with continuous improvement
Technologies
Frontend
- Next.js 15
- JavaScript
- TailwindCSS
- Vercel
Backend
- FastAPI
- Python
- Pydantic
- Haystack
- Dokploy
- Docker
- GCP
- Vertex AI
- Hetzner
- Groq
- Ollama
- GitHub Actions
- GitHub Container Registry (GHCR)
Deployment
Frontend (Vercel)
- Public URL
- Optimized build for Next.js
- Integration with GitHub, CI/CD triggered by webhooks
Backend (Hetzner)
- VPS with medium specs (8 CPUs + 16 GB RAM), applications managed by Dokploy
- Integrated with GitHub, CI/CD triggered by webhooks, dockerized image push to GHCR and fetched by Dokploy for deployment
- Serve RESTful API endpoints to frontend via secure API-KEY authentication and CORS
Generative AI
- Ollama (Development)
- Qwen3-8B (Complex Reasoning)
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Llama3.2-3B (Chatbot)
- Groq (Production)
- Llama-3.3-70B-Versatile (Complex Reasoning)
- Llama-3.1-8B-Instant (Chatbot)
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Speech-to-text)
Prior Work
Prior to the hackathon, our team set up the GitHub repository, backend, and frontend framework, designed the initial webpage layout, AI Summary, implemented a demo login, and conducted a Google Form survey to identify doctors’ administrative pain points.
During the hackathon, we focused on resolving error messages, integrating an API for conversation transcription, Voice-to-text features, AI Chatbot, and refining the UI for a cleaner, more user-friendly experience.