ketewodros41-star/MedLink-Ethiopia

# MedLink Ethiopia MedLink Ethiopia is an AI-powered healthcare logistics platform built to help patients find verified medicine quickly, even when inventory is fragmented, pharmacy data is stale, or connectivity is unreliable. This workspace is organized as a multi-app repository with a clean separation between the product surface and the service layer: - frontend/ contains the Next.js user interface. - medlink-fastapi/ contains the FastAPI backend. - medplum-main/ is a separate MedPlum codebase kept alongside the main product. The root README is written as portfolio documentation for the full system. Backend-specific implementation notes live in medlink-fastapi/README.md, and the frontend starter notes live in frontend/README.md. ## What MedLink Solves Healthcare logistics is often treated like a simple inventory problem. In reality, it is usually a trust, latency, and communication problem. MedLink is designed around those constraints: - Patients may search by brand name, generic name, or informal description. - Pharmacy stock can be incomplete, delayed, or manually reported. - Network access may be weak or intermittent. - Prescription handling requires stronger validation than a normal CRUD workflow. - Verification, auditability, and traceability matter as much as speed. The project is built to support a realistic workflow: search for medicine, locate nearby pharmacies, validate stock, reserve inventory, and preserve the full audit trail. ## Portfolio Highlights - Full-stack healthcare platform with a modern Next.js front end and a FastAPI backend. - Medicine search, pharmacy discovery, and reservation workflows designed for real-world supply constraints. - OCR-based prescription ingestion with secure file handling and review signaling. - Trust scoring and counterfeit-risk heuristics for pharmacy and inventory signals. - Offline synchronization support for delayed client actions. - Telecom/SMS-style ingestion paths for low-bandwidth updates. - Immutab …