Mitigating patient and consumer safety risks when using conversational assistants for medical information: exploratory mixed methods experiment.
Bickmore TW, Olafsson S, O'Leary TK. Mitigating patient and consumer safety risks when using conversational assistants for medical information: exploratory mixed methods experiment. J Med Internet Res. 2021;23(11):e30704. doi:10.2196/30704.
Patients and families increasingly access mobile apps, conversational assistants, and the internet to find information about health conditions or medications. In a follow up to an earlier study, researchers evaluated two approaches to determine the likelihood that patients would act upon the information received from conversational assistants.