HealthLine

Training the A.I using The SIMS 4
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Inspiration

One of our team member's sister is a nurse and she's the one who inspired us. Nurses have a hard time dealing with the overcrowding of the waiting rooms, and the patients have to suffer from lack of treatment and out of this world waiting times. We wanted to implement a solution that would benefit both parties, and this is why we came up with HealthLine.

What it does

HealthLine is a hospital optimization platform designed to reduce waiting times in emergency rooms (ER) by providing hospital staff with real-time data and decision-making tools. It enables efficient rerouting of patients to facilities with shorter wait times or better resource availability. The platform features a centralized dashboard where users can view a general overview of all participating hospitals, including key metrics like occupancy rates, and current waiting times. For deeper insights, users can navigate to hospital-specific pages displaying live camera feeds to monitor waiting room congestion, and view detailed statistics. By analyzing this data, HealthLine empowers hospitals to streamline patient flow and improve overall healthcare delivery.

How we built it

We used Next.js as our React Framework. For the database, we used Xata. We host the livestream for the waiting room capacity simulation running in Sims 4 on Youtube. Then YOLOv11 runs the person detection model to detect how full rooms are.

Challenges we ran into

One of our major challenges was to get a simulation of an ER going to be able to train the model. We originally wanted to use Unity and their A.I agents, but for that we would've had to build our own waiting room since there were no assets that would fit our needs. Next, we thought about using Garry's Mods because of their access to the Steam Workshop and the infinity of models that come with it. However, the A.I agents (the NextBots in this instance) were too complicated to program and we didn't have the time to figure it out. We finally landed on The SIMS 4, and it was really easy to setup and get an ER going for our simulations.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are very proud for our out of the box thinking of using The SIMS to train an A.I model that tracks patients. We have never seen someone do it before and although it may sound a bit unserious, it does the job really well. If we had to, we would gladly use The SIMS again.

What we learned

We learned how to use virtual cameras with OBS to be able to record a screen in real time.

What's next for HealthLine

In the future, we are planning to make the wait time more specific to the resources needed. For exemple, if there is 10 people waiting for an X-Ray in the a hospital that only has 2 X-Ray machies availaible, the program will find a hospital with less people waiting for an X-Ray or one with more X-Ray resources.