International Journal of Health Policy and Management

International Journal of Health Policy and Management

The Potential Possibility of Symptom Checker

Document Type : Letter to Editor

Authors
Tomohiro Morita 1
Abidur Rahman 2
Takanori Hasegawa 3
Akihiko Ozaki 4
Tetsuya Tanimoto 5
1 Department of Internal Medicine, Soma Central Hospital, Soma, Japan
2 Department of Medicine, Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College & Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh
3 Health Intelligence Center, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Minato-ku, Japan
4 Department of Surgery, Minamisoma Municipal General Hospital, Fukushima, Japan
5 Department of Internal Medicine, Jyoban Hospital of Tokiwa Foundation, Fukushima, Japan
10.15171/ijhpm.2017.41
Keywords
Telemedicine
Information and Communication Technology
Artificial Intelligence
Diagnostics
Subjects

Dear Editor,

The access to medical care is unacceptably low worldwide in spite of the increasing demand for medical care due to population aging and increasing burden of non-infectious diseases... (Read more...)

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International Journal of Health Policy and Management
Volume 6, Issue 10
2017
Pages 615-616

  • Received Date 11 March 2017
  • Revised Date 18 March 2017
  • Accepted Date 18 March 2017
  • First Published Date 01 October 2017
  • Published Date 01 October 2017