Staff writer, with CNANational Taiwan University Hospital on Wednesday unveiled a skin disease diagnostic support system to help identify skin diseases using artificial intelligence and smartphone apps, which doctors said increase the precision of clinical diagnosis and reduce intrusive medical checks. The procedure can be avoided if the precision of clinical diagnosis were improved, he said. An information technology firm collaborated with the hospital to develop the clinical decision support system — an app that analyzes data to help healthcare providers make decisions and improve patient care, he said. The system is easy to use and the data are available seconds after a photograph of a lesion is uploaded, he said. In the first phase, thousands of biopsies were uploaded and the app’s diagnoses were 90 percent accurate, he added.

Source: Taipei Times June 27, 2019 16:04 UTC