Healthcare IT News December 29, 2020
Kat Jercich

Some of the apps were comparable to general practitioners when it came to safety performance, but none were as accurate in terms of diagnosing ailments.

A study published earlier this month in BMJ Open found that primary care practitioners outperformed eight symptom-checking apps when it came to the diagnostic accuracy and safety of the advice.

The study found that apps varied substantially in their metrics, but noted that the best performing ones came close to general practitioners in including the correct diagnosis among their top 3 and top 5 suggestions.

“The nature of iterative improvements to software suggests that further improvements will occur with experience and additional evaluation studies,” wrote the research team.

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