The artificial intelligence (AI) It is a technology that is here to stay and that is increasingly being used by large sectors such as health, which promotes the development of mobile applications that can help us, for example, to assess our symptoms.
Although medical experts recommend that people go to a doctor’s office, hospital or clinic when faced with a possible illness or serious symptoms, some prefer to take action on the matter, take some medication that is always at home or, finally, go to a teleconsultation.
However, with the advancement of technology and artificial intelligence, an association between Take carePlusa social responsibility platform of reference in prevention and health education in all stages of life, and Mediktor, an interactive tool capable of analyzing symptoms and evaluating the state of health of the user, has given rise to an app that can help you when you feel bad, called Mediktor in the same way.
How does Mediktor work?
The application, through artificial intelligence techniques, is in charge of guiding the user about what discomforts or illnesses they may be suffering.
The program has a virtual assistant called Oscarwho introduces himself as follows: “I am Oskar, your artificial intelligence based medical assistant, write your symptoms and I will help you in 3 minutes”.
Mediktor is available for free on both desktop and mobile operating systems. iOS Y Android.
The platform rasks the user questions to explain in their own words the discomfort or ailments they feel. After the questionnaire, it offers a list of possible diseases and warns if the patient’s condition is urgent.
“Our mission is to improve access to healthcare around the world, overcoming currently recognized problems such as lack of efficiency in healthcare delivery and general saturation of healthcare systems.”, they affirm from Mediktor.