Abstracts by keywords: patient empowerment
Symptom checkers are interactive, AI-based applications designed to support patients' self-management in the event of symptoms of illness. By assessing diagnoses and urgency, symptom checkers have the potential to contribute to care management and improve health literacy. The diagnostic accuracy of the currently available symptom checkers is currently still in a rather low range. When it comes to triage accuracy, however, some of the applications do very well. The latter point in particular offers opportunities to relieve emergency rooms, for example.
03.04.2023
The great challenge threatening all developed social systems is demographic development. It has been known for years that the populations in western countries are getting older. In 1950, not even 10 percent of our population was older than 65 years, but in 2025 almost 25 percent of people in Western Europe will be over 65 years old. The age structure will be similar to that in Florida, affectionately called "God's Waiting Room" by the Americans.