<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="3.10.0">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://darbandi.me/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://darbandi.me/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2026-04-21T23:16:30+00:00</updated><id>https://darbandi.me/feed.xml</id><title type="html">Nima Darbandi | PhD in Computer Science</title><subtitle>PhD student at the University of Georgia working on AI-driven biomedical systems, computer vision, and genomics for early disease detection and precision medicine.</subtitle><author><name>Nima Darbandi</name><email>darbandi@uga.edu</email></author><entry><title type="html">Patient Co-Pilot: Helping Patients Navigate Complex Care with Confidence</title><link href="https://darbandi.me/posts/2026/04/patient-copilot-practical/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Patient Co-Pilot: Helping Patients Navigate Complex Care with Confidence" /><published>2026-04-21T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-04-21T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://darbandi.me/posts/2026/04/patient-copilot-practical</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://darbandi.me/posts/2026/04/patient-copilot-practical/"><![CDATA[<p>I built <strong>Patient Co-Pilot</strong> mobile app to solve a very practical patient problem: confused with too much medical information, spread across too many places, from too many doctors.</p>

<p>When patients are dealing with multiple visits, reports, and prescriptions, it is hard to track what matters, what changed, and what to ask the doctor next. This app helps patients keep their information together, understand their care plan better, and show up prepared for clinical discussions.</p>

<h2 id="why-this-app-is-useful-in-real-life">Why this app is useful in real life</h2>

<p>Patient Co-Pilot is designed to reduce confusion and make follow-up visits more productive:</p>

<ul>
  <li>Record and transcribe doctor conversations.</li>
  <li>Digest and Keep documents, transcript files, and medication-related notes in one place.</li>
  <li>Build a structured patient summary from selected sources (timeline, mention points, and medication points).</li>
  <li>Turn scattered information into practical follow-up questions for the next visit.</li>
  <li>Support patient education with patient clinical source-restricted Q&amp;A so patients can better understand their condition and care context without scattered chats with AI chat bots.</li>
</ul>

<p>This improves continuity between visits and helps patients extract value from complex clinical data instead of feeling lost in it.</p>

<p>Patient Co-Pilot is especially useful for people managing cancer and other complex diseases, where decisions depend on many reports, specialist opinions, and medication changes over time. It is also useful for patients and families with less experience in public care systems and hospitalization workflows, because it creates a clearer path from “I have many documents” to “I understand where I am, what to ask and what to discuss next.”</p>

<h2 id="safety-and-clinical-boundaries">Safety and clinical boundaries</h2>

<p><img src="/images/patient.png" alt="Patient safety icon" width="42" /></p>

<p>The app is intentionally designed to support the patient without interfering with clinician decision-making:</p>

<ul>
  <li>It does not replace diagnosis, prognosis, or treatment planning.</li>
  <li>It uses review and source controls before downstream AI features.</li>
  <li>It keeps patient-facing and clinician-facing exports separated where needed.</li>
  <li>It focuses on helping patients ask better questions and understand guidance, not giving independent medical directives.</li>
</ul>

<p>In short, it acts as a patient companion for organization and education, while preserving the doctor’s role in clinical judgment.</p>

<h2 id="technical-snapshot">Technical snapshot</h2>

<p>The current implementation is a mobile app built with React Native/Expo, with core workflows for transcript capture, document import, patient-summary generation, and constrained Q&amp;A.</p>

<p>GitHub repository: <a href="https://github.com/nimadarbandi/CopilotApp">nimadarbandi/CopilotApp</a></p>

<h2 id="screenshot-placeholders">Screenshot placeholders</h2>

<p>I left these placeholders so screenshots can be dropped in quickly once ready:</p>

<p><img src="/images/patient-copilot/record-tab.png" alt="Patient Co-Pilot Record tab screenshot" />
<em>TODO: replace with actual Record tab screenshot.</em></p>

<p><img src="/images/patient-copilot/docs-tab.png" alt="Patient Co-Pilot Docs tab screenshot" />
<em>TODO: replace with actual Docs tab screenshot.</em></p>

<p><img src="/images/patient-copilot/reports-tab.png" alt="Patient Co-Pilot Reports tab screenshot" />
<em>TODO: replace with actual Reports tab screenshot.</em></p>]]></content><author><name>Nima Darbandi</name><email>darbandi@uga.edu</email></author><category term="healthcare ai" /><category term="patient education" /><category term="clinical workflow" /><category term="patient tools" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[I built Patient Co-Pilot mobile app to solve a very practical patient problem: confused with too much medical information, spread across too many places, from too many doctors.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Blog Post number 1</title><link href="https://darbandi.me/posts/2012/08/blog-post-1/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Blog Post number 1" /><published>2012-08-14T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2012-08-14T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://darbandi.me/posts/2012/08/blog-post-1</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://darbandi.me/posts/2012/08/blog-post-1/"><![CDATA[<p>This is a sample blog post. Lorem ipsum I can’t remember the rest of lorem ipsum and don’t have an internet connection right now. Testing testing testing this blog post. Blog posts are cool.</p>

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