AI-powered health apps have become popular as millions of people turn to their smartphones for medical help, researchers said.
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Health apps that use chatbots to diagnose and check symptoms in patients via their smartphones may be lacking necessary functions to do a full check, according to a study conducted by Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology.
Apps like WebMD, Medscape, and Ada, do not support physical examination, diagnose completely, or analyse test results as these data are difficult to know using mobile apps, in a study yet to be published.
These applications can only know patient history and their symptoms, provide preliminary diagnosis, suggest follow up tests, and then make referrals to doctors.
The team of researchers probed these…