A new app is looking to help health-care professionals and the public make better-informed decisions about COVID-19 by collecting peer-reviewed scientific papers and hosting them in one place
, uses artificial intelligence to search multiple peer-reviewed medical data sources in combination with collective insights of health-care professionals to deliver the most relevant findings and advice to users., also features confidence ratings and commentary from doctors to further assist users in determining which articles are the most helpful for them.
"Under normal conditions, there are hundreds of new findings published in any given medical discipline every day. During a pandemic you can multiply that by a factor of 10," Maynard said.reported in a keynote address in mid-July that of the 25,000 articles that emerged in various online portals and medical journals about COVID-19 at that time, filtering revealed that 48 were meta-analyses that combined the results of multiple studies and only 25 were clinical trials.
AIKnowledgeEnable has been avaible to health-care practitioners to research any medical condition for the last two years, but the pandemic has since prompted RTM to expand the app to the public with a focus on COVID-19 information. "It's not just the article but it's also what are doctors around the world are saying about this and how users can then use that in their day to day life as we all seek to navigate this new normal," Maynard said.
"Now more than ever the public needs to have a source of information that can help them make decisions about their daily lives as we enter this new world," Maynard said. "Decisions do have to be made as we go about our lives, and navigate both the information that surrounds us, as well as the environment that surrounds us."
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