receiving information that isn’t accurate can present major health risks to symptoms checker users. For example, imagine that you’re having symptoms of a heart attack, such as chest tightness or shortness of breath. If a symptom checker tells you that your ...
Online symptom checkers, often embedded in chatbots, are promising because they can efficiently triage patients. When patients describe symptoms of the common cold, the symptom checker should respond by saying patients may ride out the symptoms at home with some over-the-counter remedies. A ...
The Symptom Checker Engine is a tool designed to help a physician make a diagnosis. We expect this tool to be especially valuable for rare diseases, which are usually out of the scope of what physicians suspect to be associated with frequent symptoms like chest pain and cough. Missing these ...