All about Online Symptom Checker
The advancement of technology in the past few decades have led to digitalization in medical sector as well. Online symptom checker is one such example. In today’s fast paced and pandemic time when each one of us avoid to visit public places and have become more conscious about our health online symptom checker have played an important role.
What is an online symptom checker?
In simple words online symptom checker are the tools that provides the diagnosis based on the symptoms entered by the user. This tool can protect you by offering guidance on whether to seek immediate medical care or not. And also gives you an idea of the underlying disease and you can be prepared with more direct questions before visiting the doctor.
How do they work?
Online symptoms checker are based on Artificial intelligence and data analysis. They use the algorithms and process the data provided by the user. List of diagnosis is then produced that might fit the patient’s symptoms. They also advice whether the patient needs to take medical help and with what level of urgency.
Pros and cons
Online symptoms checker can help patient with life threatening symptoms to seek help immediately and also help them to understand what they might have. Also it potentially decreases visit to doctors by assuring patients who don’t require immediate treatment.
But as these checkers are not 100% accurate and if the symptoms persists for long you may go for a second opinion.
Conclusion
These online health symptoms checker are based on the input entered by the user and algorithms already programmed in them they cannot be compared with the diagnosis of a Doctor but these are more reliable than a general symptom search.
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