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MediRoute OpenEnv

MediRoute OpenEnv is a deterministic healthcare triage + hospital routing simulation environment designed for evaluating agent decision-making under realistic clinical constraints.

It models the end-to-end flow a real triage system must handle:

  • interpret symptoms + vitals/labs
  • assign severity (non-emergency β†’ critical)
  • route to the right specialist
  • pick an appropriate nearby facility
  • decide between appointment vs ambulance escalation

This environment is intentionally small, fully deterministic, and strongly typed so it can be used in hackathon evaluation pipelines and reproduced exactly.


Why this matters (motivation + utility)

Healthcare triage is a high-stakes planning problem with:

  • multi-step reasoning (severity β†’ specialist β†’ facility β†’ action)
  • safety-critical escalation (ambulance dispatch vs harmful delays)
  • real-world constraints (limited specialists, nearby hospitals, and incomplete info)

MediRoute is useful for agent evaluation because it tests:

  • trajectory quality (progressive reward shaping across steps)
  • loop avoidance (duplicate actions and stalling are penalized)
  • robustness (invalid actions are handled safely and deterministically)
  • policy compliance (terminal actions and episode boundaries are enforced)

Environment overview

  • Environment class: MediRouteEnv in environment.py
  • Spec: openenv.yaml
  • Typed interface: models.py (Pydantic Observation, Action, StepResult)
  • Tasks: tasks.py (easy, medium, hard)
  • Deterministic graders: graders.py (grade_step, grade_episode)

OpenEnv interface methods:

  • reset(difficulty: str) -> Observation
  • step(action: Action) -> StepResult where StepResult contains:
    • observation (updated Observation)
    • reward (incremental step reward)
    • done (episode termination flag)
    • info (diagnostics incl. totals and termination reason)
  • state() -> Observation (read-only snapshot)

Tasks (real-world healthcare cases)

The tasks represent increasing clinical risk and decision complexity.

Easy β€” mild illness (primary care)

  • Scenario: fever + sore throat with positive strep test
  • Goal: classify low severity, route to General Physician, choose an appropriate clinic, then close with appointment/guidance
  • Clinical realism: routine outpatient triage with lab confirmation

Medium β€” suspected acute coronary syndrome

  • Scenario: crushing chest pain, hypertension, ECG ST-elevation, elevated troponin
  • Goal: classify high severity, route to Cardiologist, select a cardiac-capable hospital, then close appropriately
  • Clinical realism: time-sensitive cardiology routing

Hard β€” critical collapse (life-threatening)

  • Scenario: unresponsive patient with cyanosis and SpOβ‚‚ crash
  • Goal: classify critical severity and dispatch ambulance (terminal action), avoiding unsafe appointment flows
  • Clinical realism: emergency escalation with irreversible harm from delay

Action space

Defined in models.py (VALID_ACTION_TYPES) and mirrored in openenv.yaml:

  • analyze_symptoms β€” classify severity (target: low|moderate|high|critical)
  • request_more_info β€” ask for missing details (target optional)
  • recommend_specialist β€” choose specialist (target: a specialist name)
  • select_hospital β€” choose facility (target: a hospital name)
  • book_appointment β€” close non-emergencies (target optional)
  • call_ambulance β€” escalate emergencies (target optional)
  • provide_temp_guidance β€” short-term guidance (target optional)

Observation space

Observation fields (see models.py and openenv.yaml):

  • symptoms: str
  • lab_report_summary: dict
  • severity_score: float in [0.0, 1.0] (updated when severity is analyzed)
  • location: str
  • nearby_hospitals: list[str]
  • available_specialists: list[str]
  • previous_actions: list[str] (canonical "<action_type>:<target>")

MediRoute OpenEnv

MediRoute OpenEnv is a deterministic healthcare triage + hospital routing simulation environment designed for evaluating agent decision-making under realistic clinical constraints.

It models the end-to-end flow a real triage system must handle:

  • interpret symptoms + vitals/labs
  • assign severity (non-emergency β†’ critical)
  • route to the right specialist
  • pick an appropriate nearby facility
  • decide between appointment vs ambulance escalation

This environment is intentionally small, fully deterministic, and strongly typed so it can be used in hackathon evaluation pipelines and reproduced exactly.


Configuration

This project exposes several environment variables used at runtime. Keep sensitive keys server-side and out of client-side code (e.g., do not expose GEOCODER_API_KEY or OPENAI_API_KEY to the browser).

Important environment variables:

  • OPENAI_API_KEY β€” (optional) API key for OpenAI if you use the LLM baseline or OpenAI-backed inference.
  • HF_TOKEN β€” (optional) Hugging Face token for gated HF models.
  • API_BASE_URL β€” (optional) override for OpenAI-compatible endpoints.
  • MODEL_NAME β€” (optional) model name to use for LLM inference (default: gpt-4o-mini in examples).
  • USE_LOCAL_EMBEDDINGS β€” (optional) set to 1/true to enable sentence-transformers fallback for analyze when a cloud key is not present.
  • EMBEDDING_MODEL β€” (optional) sentence-transformers model id (e.g., all-MiniLM-L6-v2) used by local embeddings fallback.
  • GEOCODER_PROVIDER β€” (optional) nominatim (default) or mapbox or google if implemented; the server will use this to select reverse geocoding provider.
  • GEOCODER_API_KEY β€” (required if using a paid provider) API key for the chosen geocoding provider; keep this server-side and set it as an environment variable or secret.
  • NEXT_PUBLIC_API_BASE β€” (frontend) base URL for the backend API; this can point to http://localhost:8000 in development. Avoid putting secret keys in NEXT_PUBLIC_ vars.

Example .env (for local development) β€” do NOT commit this file into git:

# .env.local (example)
OPENAI_API_KEY=""
HF_TOKEN=""
USE_LOCAL_EMBEDDINGS=1
EMBEDDING_MODEL="all-MiniLM-L6-v2"
GEOCODER_PROVIDER=nominatim
# GEOCODER_API_KEY="your_mapbox_or_google_key"
NEXT_PUBLIC_API_BASE="http://localhost:8000"

Docker example (passing keys at runtime):

docker run --rm -e GEOCODER_PROVIDER=mapbox -e GEOCODER_API_KEY="$MAPBOX_KEY" -e OPENAI_API_KEY="$OPENAI_KEY" -p 8000:8000 mediroute-openenv:latest

Notes:

  • Nominatim (OpenStreetMap) is supported by default for reverse geocoding but has usage limits and a usage policy β€” for production use consider Mapbox or Google and set GEOCODER_API_KEY accordingly.
  • Keep API keys on the server. The frontend should call your server endpoints (e.g., /reverse-geocode) rather than calling external providers directly.

Why this matters (motivation + utility)

Healthcare triage is a high-stakes planning problem with:

  • multi-step reasoning (severity β†’ specialist β†’ facility β†’ action)
  • safety-critical escalation (ambulance dispatch vs harmful delays)
  • real-world constraints (limited specialists, nearby hospitals, and incomplete info)

MediRoute is useful for agent evaluation because it tests:

  • trajectory quality (progressive reward shaping across steps)
  • loop avoidance (duplicate actions and stalling are penalized)
  • robustness (invalid actions are handled safely and deterministically)
  • policy compliance (terminal actions and episode boundaries are enforced)

Environment overview

  • Environment class: MediRouteEnv in environment.py
  • Spec: openenv.yaml
  • Typed interface: models.py (Pydantic Observation, Action, StepResult)
  • Tasks: tasks.py (easy, medium, hard)
  • Deterministic graders: graders.py (grade_step, grade_episode)

OpenEnv interface methods:

  • reset(difficulty: str) -> Observation
  • step(action: Action) -> StepResult where StepResult contains:
    • observation (updated Observation)
    • reward (incremental step reward)
    • done (episode termination flag)
    • info (diagnostics incl. totals and termination reason)
  • state() -> Observation (read-only snapshot)

Tasks (real-world healthcare cases)

The tasks represent increasing clinical risk and decision complexity.

Easy β€” mild illness (primary care)

  • Scenario: fever + sore throat with positive strep test
  • Goal: classify low severity, route to General Physician, choose an appropriate clinic, then close with appointment/guidance
  • Clinical realism: routine outpatient triage with lab confirmation

Medium β€” suspected acute coronary syndrome

  • Scenario: crushing chest pain, hypertension, ECG ST-elevation, elevated troponin
  • Goal: classify high severity, route to Cardiologist, select a cardiac-capable hospital, then close appropriately
  • Clinical realism: time-sensitive cardiology routing

Hard β€” critical collapse (life-threatening)

  • Scenario: unresponsive patient with cyanosis and SpOβ‚‚ crash
  • Goal: classify critical severity and dispatch ambulance (terminal action), avoiding unsafe appointment flows
  • Clinical realism: emergency escalation with irreversible harm from delay

Action space

Defined in models.py (VALID_ACTION_TYPES) and mirrored in openenv.yaml:

  • analyze_symptoms β€” classify severity (target: low|moderate|high|critical)
  • request_more_info β€” ask for missing details (target optional)
  • recommend_specialist β€” choose specialist (target: a specialist name)
  • select_hospital β€” choose facility (target: a hospital name)
  • book_appointment β€” close non-emergencies (target optional)
  • call_ambulance β€” escalate emergencies (target optional)
  • provide_temp_guidance β€” short-term guidance (target optional)

Observation space

Observation fields (see models.py and openenv.yaml):

  • symptoms: str
  • lab_report_summary: dict
  • severity_score: float in [0.0, 1.0] (updated when severity is analyzed)
  • location: str
  • nearby_hospitals: list[str]
  • available_specialists: list[str]
  • previous_actions: list[str] (canonical "<action_type>:<target>")

Reward shaping (non-binary, trajectory-based)

Reward is shaped across the trajectory (not a single binary outcome):

  • partial credit for intermediate correct decisions (severity, specialist, hospital)
  • penalties for unsafe or unproductive behavior (wrong routing, duplicates, stalling)
  • episode total is clamped to [0.0, 1.0] for consistent scoring

Implementation:

  • per-step reward: graders.grade_step(task, action, previous_actions)
  • episode summary: graders.grade_episode(...)
  • total reward clamped + tracked in environment.py

Setup

Local (Python)

cd meta
python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Run the environment

Interactive REPL (manual testing)

cd meta
python app.py --difficulty easy

Baseline inference (LLM agent)

Environment variables:

  • OPENAI_API_KEY (or HF_TOKEN for gated HF models)
  • API_BASE_URL (defaults to OpenAI; can be any OpenAI-compatible server)
  • MODEL_NAME (defaults to gpt-4o-mini)
cd meta
export OPENAI_API_KEY="..."
export API_BASE_URL="https://api.openai.com/v1"
export MODEL_NAME="gpt-4o-mini"
python inference.py --difficulty all --agent llm

Baseline inference (deterministic rules agent)

This baseline runs without any network calls and is fully reproducible.

cd meta
python inference.py --difficulty all --agent rules

Expected baseline scores

Because the environment and grader are deterministic:

  • Rules baseline (--agent rules) is expected to score 1.0000 on easy, medium, and hard.
  • LLM baseline (--agent llm) depends on the chosen model/endpoint, but should typically pass all tasks with a capable instruction-following model.

Docker (build + run)

Build

cd meta
docker build -t mediroute-openenv:latest .

Run (rules baseline, no API required)

docker run --rm mediroute-openenv:latest python -u inference.py --difficulty all --agent rules

Run (LLM baseline)

docker run --rm \
  -e OPENAI_API_KEY="..." \
  -e API_BASE_URL="https://api.openai.com/v1" \
  -e MODEL_NAME="gpt-4o-mini" \
  mediroute-openenv:latest python -u inference.py --difficulty all --agent llm

Hugging Face Spaces (CPU) deployment notes

MediRoute is HF-Spaces-friendly because it is CPU-only and can run fully offline using the rules baseline.

Recommended Space setup:

  • SDK: Docker (or Python, but Docker is easiest)
  • Hardware: CPU basic
  • Entrypoint: keep the default CMD (runs all tasks), or override to rules mode

If using Docker Spaces:

  • add secrets as needed (OPENAI_API_KEY / HF_TOKEN)
  • optionally set MODEL_NAME and API_BASE_URL for your endpoint

To default the Space to offline evaluation:

  • configure it to run: python -u inference.py --difficulty all --agent rules

Novelty (why this is different)

Compared to common OpenEnv tasks (email triage, scheduling, simple classification), MediRoute is novel because it combines:

  • safety-critical escalation (ambulance dispatch logic, harmful appointment decisions)
  • severity inference β†’ downstream routing (specialist + hospital choice depends on severity)
  • trajectory shaping that rewards incremental clinical reasoning and penalizes loops
  • healthcare-specific realism (vitals/labs, STEMI-like signals, SpOβ‚‚ collapse)

Repo map

  • environment.py β€” OpenEnv environment implementation (reset/step/state)
  • models.py β€” Pydantic models (Observation, Action, StepResult)
  • tasks.py β€” deterministic tasks (easy|medium|hard)
  • graders.py β€” deterministic reward shaping and episode grading
  • inference.py β€” baseline inference runner (--agent llm|rules)
  • app.py β€” manual interactive REPL
  • openenv.yaml β€” OpenEnv specification