Faculty at the University of California Irvine are developing a conversational health agent with a large language model-powered framework. The project, named openCHA, aims to deliver personalized health analysis and recommendations. The technology will allow integration of various data sources, knowledge bases and analysis models enabling more user-friendly health interactions. The goal is to foster a community around openCHA to drive forward conversational health technology.

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