The latest articles on DEV Community by Sakshi Bhosale (@sakshidb). https://dev.to/sakshidb https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4162390%2F0013e4c5-06fc-43c5-b876-2d70edcf39d7.png https://dev.to/sakshidb en Sakshi Bhosale Sun, 18 Oct 2026 14:50:39 +0000 https://dev.to/sakshidb/building-secureclinic-a-simple-local-pii-redactor-experiment-37h8 https://dev.to/sakshidb/building-secureclinic-a-simple-local-pii-redactor-experiment-37h8 <p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week2-2026-10-12">Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle</a></em></p> <h2> What I Built </h2> <p>For this week's challenge, I put together <strong>SecureClinic</strong>—a small, experimental Python/Streamlit utility designed to scrub Personally Identifiable Information (PII) from text notes locally. It’s a simple concept built for practitioners who want to handle patient notes without leaking data to third-party cloud APIs.</p> <h2> Code &amp; Repo </h2> <p>You can check out the repository and code here:<br> 👉 <strong><a href="https://github.com/sakshi-db/local-med-redactor" rel="noopener noreferrer">repo link</a></strong></p> <h2> How I Built It </h2> <ul> <li>Built a quick local web UI using <strong>Streamlit</strong>.</li> <li>Set up basic text replacement and file uploading logic to handle raw text files entirely offline.</li> </ul> <h2> Why Does Open Innovation Matter? </h2> <p>When building tools that touch sensitive data like medical or health notes, data privacy isn't just an optional feature—it's a hard boundary. Small clinics or independent practitioners cannot risk uploading sensitive records to opaque cloud servers. </p> <p>Open innovation makes it possible to bring powerful AI capabilities directly to local, air-gapped, or offline environments. A closed commercial API would require sending sensitive data over the internet, whereas open-weight and open-source models let users run tools locally with absolute data ownership and zero cloud leakage.</p> <p><em>Just participating, learning, and grabbing that Hacktoberfest swag as I go! Thanks for reading.</em></p> devchallenge hf26challenge beginners opensource