Demonstration and Validation of an Advanced Symptom Checker

Abstract

Symptom checkers are becoming very popular. Yet a recent review on them concluded that the performance of most of these are suboptimal despite much hype. Taking into account lessons learned from the development and deployment of some of the most current popular symptom checkers available in the Internet, an advanced symptom checker was designed and developed with the following features. They were - to diagnose the common problems encountered in the medical self-care in the community, to provide evidence based treatment mostly with over the counter drugs and to provide timely and appropriate referral to other specialty physicians. The proposed solution will be referred to as Computer Assisted Evaluation of Symptoms based symptom checker (CAMEOS - CHECKER).