COVIBOT- An intelligent WhatsApp based advising bot for Covid-19

Abstract

during the time of the global pandemic Covid 19, entire world is having problems associated with global sickness and health care issues. It is visible that there is no accurate medicine, yet available for the disease. There is no direct method that is responsible to handle the situation when a person suffers from this disease. The paper elaborates method that is responsible for advising a person about the first aid or immediate treatment that can be taken care during this pandemic situation. Artificial intelligence and natural language processing are used for providing a system, which is integrated with the very famous, WhatsApp messenger. The paper also elaborates the functionality of the bot and construction. This bot is sufficient for providing proper advice based on the symptoms of a patient in order to seek medical attention. The bot further gives the advices and information about nearest hospitals for seeking medical care.

Empowering Preventive Care with GECA Chatbot

“…Babylon [15] Ada Health [16] Buoy Health [17] Your.md [18] Gyant [19] Symptomate [20] MedWhat [21] Well-Being Iona Mind [22] Florence Nightingale Chatbot [23] Izzy [24] SafeDrugBot [25] Mental Health Chatbots Elomia [26] Youper [27] Cancer-Specific Chatbots One Remission Chatbot [15] CancerChatbot [28] Dementia-Specific Chatbots Care [29] AlzBot [30] COVID-19-Specific Chatbots COVID-19 Leave Chat Bot [31] MyGov Corona Helpdesk chatbot [32] Cosibot [31] ANA [33] COVIBOT [34] ChatBot-19 Risk Assessment Chatbot [31]…”

“…However, this monitoring service is currently only available for the cities of Belo Horizonte and Divinópolis in Brazil. COVIBOT [ 34 ] is another chatbot that helps users seek appropriate medical attention based on their symptoms and provides information on nearby hospitals. Lastly, ChatBot-19 Risk Assessment Chatbot [ 31 ] calculates the user’s risk of contracting COVID-19 based on information such as their symptoms, age, and gender.…”

COVID-19 advising application development for Apple devices (iOS)

“…One of the critical use cases of NLP is to identify a person’s symptoms and handle the situation accordingly. Khan & Albatein (2021) presented one of the fascinating models in which the authors constructed a WhatsApp advising bot. The application was able to take user responses with the help of NLP.…”

Streamlining Medical Services: A Virtual Chatbot for Stomach- related Illnesses

“…Numerous chatbots have been developed by various researchers to simplify tasks in diverse areas such as healthcare, disease management, agriculture, and more. For example, Florence: a chatbot which focuses on providing healthcare-related assistance [14], Darwin: intelligent health assistant based on a convolutional neural network [15], kBot: personalized chatbot that utilizes knowledge to support self-management of asthma [16], ECHO: a tool specifically developed to assess the effectiveness of cloud-based chatbots through empirical evaluation [17], Disha: Bangla healthcare chatbot that utilizes machine learning for its implementation [18], Krushi: the farmer chatbot [19], Medbot: chatbot powered by conversational artificial intelligence designed to provide telehealth services after the COVID-19 pandemic [20], and COVIBOT: smart advisory chatbot for COVID-19 that uses WhatsApp as a platform for communication [21]. There are many chatbots that have been built by other researchers to help in the disease field, such as asthma, Covid-19, and health care.…”