Mobile-first digital health platform for low-resource settings.
# Link Mobile App
Link is a mobile-first digital health platform designed for low-resource settings. It aims to empower patients by integrating AI-supported triage, trusted healthcare provider recommendations, personal health records and appointment booking into one seamless experience.
## Key Features
1. **Symptom Checker (AI‑Guided Triage)**
- Presents questions one at a time, adapting to the user’s age and health conditions.
- Uses AI to generate a summary and recommendation.
- Determines whether self care, a clinic visit or emergency care is needed.
2. **Smart Facility Recommendations**
- Recommends nearby healthcare facilities based on triage results and the patient’s location.
- Displays open hours, services offered, queue times, available equipment and payment or voucher status.
- Flags facilities that are inactive or offline.
3. **Personal Health Records (PHR)**
- Provides a dashboard where patients can view their triage history, uploaded documents, visit notes and medications.
- Allows records to be exported or shared as PDF or QR code.
4. **Appointment Booking**
- Books in‑person or virtual appointments with facilities or specific providers.
- Sends confirmations and reminders.
- Shares the patient’s triage summary and uploaded documents with the provider.
5. **Provider Portal**
- Lets providers view appointments and record encounter notes, diagnoses and treatments.
- Offers tools to manage clinic information, staff and equipment.
6. **Health Feed**
- Enables patients to ask anonymous questions and providers or sponsors to post educational content.
- Supports up‑voting, reputation badges and content moderation.
7. **Preventive Prompts & Challenges**
- Sends personalized health nudges based on the patient’s history.
- Integrates sponsor‑funded challenges (e.g., blood pressure checks) with rewards such as airtime or pharmacy vouchers.
8. **Privacy & Consent**
- Keeps users anonymous by default.
- Implements explicit data sharing controls so that pa …