What it is
Source: My own description of the project; the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission and the OAIC for context. Date: 15 October 2026. Scope: What the assistant does, how it is built and where it stands, as a proof of concept. It claims no use in any hospital or care home, no measure of answer quality and no privacy assessment: the Australian Privacy Principles are a design aim.
The Healthcare Knowledge Assistant is AI search over hospital and aged-care policies, procedures and clinical guidelines, using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). What a user can reach depends on their role, and its answers cite their sources. Built
Australian hospitals must be accredited to the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards, whose Clinical Governance Standard asks them to keep policies and procedures current. In aged care, the strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards include an outcome on policies and procedures.
What it does
- AI search. A question about a policy, procedure or clinical guideline is answered from the documents themselves, not from a language model’s general training alone.
- Role-based access. Access follows the user’s role.
- Citations and versions. Answers name the documents they draw on, so an answer can be checked against its source, and the sources carry version metadata.
How it is built
The assistant is built on retrieval-augmented generation, in which a retriever finds the passages that bear on a question and a language model writes the answer from them (Lewis and colleagues). Built It is written in Python, with a React front end and role-based access control (RBAC). It is designed to the Australian Privacy Principles, the principles in the Privacy Act 1988 that govern how personal information is handled.
Stack. RAG, Python, React, RBAC
Where it stands
The proof of concept is built. Built This page claims no deployment, no users and no measure of answer quality.
My part
I designed the assistant and built the proof of concept. Built
