Cirra AI: Connecting Care through Understanding

Cirra AI: Connecting Care through Understanding

When I first started my internship at CHOC, I thought data was simple. Numbers in, numbers out. But I quickly learned that hospitals speak different languages, not in words but in the way they record care. When a patient was transferred to another hospital like CHLA, information like medications, allergies, or lab results would go missing. I watched doctors scroll through dozens of files, frustrated, trying to piece together a patient’s story. That moment made me realize that the real problem wasn’t just about systems failing; it was about people not understanding each other’s ways of working.

That’s how Cirra AI began. I wanted to create something that didn’t just convert data but understood it. Cirra AI reads messy clinical notes, finds what really matters, and restructures everything into a format that any hospital can understand. It doesn’t replace doctors; it helps them. It learns how each hospital “speaks,” then translates that information clearly so that no patient detail gets lost along the way.

More than coding, this project became about empathy. I had to listen to how clinicians used their systems, how they wrote notes, what they cared about. It felt like observing a culture, an ethnographic process of learning through people. Cirra AI isn’t just my engineering project. It’s my way of showing that technology can be human, that data can carry compassion, and that understanding is the first step to healing.