AI-Powered Health Insurance Claim Assistant

An Android app that helps users create draft health insurance claims from prescription images.
The app lets users create an account, store their insurance-related information, capture or upload a prescription image, send the image to a backend OCR service, and use Gemini to generate a structured draft insurance claim.

Features

• User account creation and sign in with Firebase Authentication
• User profile storage with Firebase Firestore
• Capture prescription images using the phone camera
• Upload prescription images from device storage
• Send prescription images to a Python backend running PaddleOCR
• Use Gemini to turn OCR text + user profile data into a draft insurance claim
• Render formatted claim output inside the Android app

Tech Stack

Android App

• Kotlin
• XML layouts
• Android Studio
• Firebase Authentication
• Firebase Firestore
• Firebase AI Logic / Gemini
• OkHttp
• Markwon

Backend

Backend Repository

• Python
• FastAPI
• PaddleOCR
• Uvicorn
• ngrok (for testing with a physical phone)

Project Structure

app/
├── src/main/java/com/example/umdhackathon/
│   ├── MainActivity.kt
│   ├── RegisterActivity.kt
│   ├── HomeActivity.kt
│   ├── ClaimActivity.kt
│   ├── UserProfile.kt
│   └── ...
├── src/main/res/layout/
│   ├── activity_main.xml
│   ├── activity_register.xml
│   ├── activity_home.xml
│   ├── activity_claim.xml
│   └── ...
├── src/main/AndroidManifest.xml
└── ...
backend/
├── server.py
└── ...