Enhancement: Update Code of Conduct with Healthcare-Specific Standards

[kunalverma2512]

📜 Enhancement: Healthcare-Specific Code of Conduct with Modern Markdown Formatting

📝 Issue Description

Our current Code of Conduct follows the standard Contributor Covenant template, but as a healthcare AI platform, we must go beyond general community guidelines.
Since MediBot deals with sensitive medical information, we need to incorporate healthcare-specific ethics, patient privacy protections, and AI safety requirements into our documentation.

This enhancement ensures contributors understand their responsibilities when working with health-related data and AI-driven healthcare systems.

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🎯 What Needs to Be Implemented

Core Enhancements

• Add healthcare-specific guidelines covering:
  • Medical ethics & professional responsibility
  • Patient privacy (HIPAA-equivalent standards)
  • Safe handling of healthcare data
  • AI safety & misinformation prevention
  • Algorithmic fairness & bias reduction
  • Emergency reporting procedures for health-related concerns

Markdown Improvements

• ✅ Badges for quick navigation (e.g., Ethics ✔ | Privacy 🔒 | Fairness ⚖️)
• ✅ Collapsible sections for readability
• ✅ Tables for role-specific responsibilities
• ✅ Modern visual hierarchy with headings & icons
• ✅ Healthcare disclaimer and legal notes

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📂 Content Structure

Proposed Sections

1. Introduction & Scope
   Clear purpose and who must follow this Code of Conduct.

2. Healthcare Ethics & Patient Safety

   • No spreading of medical misinformation
   • Follow professional medical communication standards

3. Privacy & Data Governance

   • HIPAA-equivalent privacy principles
   • Secure handling of patient-related data

4. AI Responsibility & Fairness

   • Ensure algorithmic fairness
   • Avoid bias in healthcare data & recommendations

5. Community Behavior

   • Respectful collaboration
   • No harassment, discrimination, or misinformation

6. Emergency & Reporting Procedures

   • Escalation steps for health-related incidents
   • Contact protocols for urgent safety concerns

7. Enforcement

   • Clear consequences for violations
   • Role of maintainers in protecting community

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🛠️ Technical & Design Notes

• Use GitHub-friendly Markdown formatting
• Implement collapsible sections (<details> ... </details>) for readability
• Use iconography + color-coded badges for quick scanning
• Cross-link to related docs (e.g., Privacy Policy, Security Guidelines)

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📊 Impact

• Builds trust with healthcare contributors & users
• Ensures medical safety and compliance in contributions
• Prevents misinformation & misuse of AI healthcare features
• Sets professional healthcare standards for our open-source project

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🏷️ Labels

documentation healthcare-ethics code-of-conduct enhancement medical-compliance community gssoc

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