SAHAYAK AI: A Next-Gen AI-Powered Intelligent Healthcare Management System for Enhanced Diagnosis and Hospital Efficiency

In many healthcare settings, especially in rural areas, challenges like excessive documentation, long wait times for appointments, language barriers, and poor information management remain. To address these issues, this paper presents SAHAYAK AI, an intelligent healthcare platform powered by AI, bringing disease prediction, hospital management, and personalized health assistance together in one ecosystem. The system provides symptom inputs or uploads for diagnostic images (CT scans, MRI, etc.) to receive disease predictions, using machine learning and visual AI models. It provides a multilingual voice assistant that not only helps patients with language barriers, but also illiterate patients, by allowing both to communicate their symptoms and schedule appointments through the use of natural interactions. The platform provides secure login with Google Firebase Authentication, an AI assistant using the Gemini API, which provides real time assistance and guidance throughout the use of the system, and a reminder module for medications and wellness routines. A dedicated hospital management portal to manage patient data, appointments, and inventory. In emergencies, the embedded alert system uses location tracking (via Mapples/Google Maps API) and Gmail API to approximate locations for the nearest hospitals. SAHAYAK AI demonstrates significant promise to convert traditional healthcare infrastructure into a smart, inclusive, and scalable AI-driven system, with a special emphasis on improving healthcare accessibility and efficiency in underserved regions.