Medical Consultation and HIV Testing After AI-Based Symptom Check: Retrospective Cohort Study
Nao Taguchi, Kunihiro Hirahara, Keisuke Harada, Keisuke Orimo, KuanYeh Lee, Kota Iwahashi, Akifumi Imamura, S Raquel Ramos · 2026
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Nao Taguchi leads a 2026 study of what happens after an AI symptom checker flags a possible HIV or sexually transmitted infection. Early HIV testing is a public health goal, yet many at-risk people never test. The team used data from the Ubie symptom search engine in Japan, covering more than four hundred thousand flagged episodes.
About a quarter of episodes led to a medical consultation, but HIV testing followed in only a few hundred cases. Older users were more likely to seek care than people in their twenties. Awareness information inside the checker was tied to seeking care. Among people who first had no plan to test, about twenty-nine percent said they would test after using the checker.
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| CREATOR | Nao Taguchi, Kunihiro Hirahara, Keisuke Harada, Keisuke Orimo, KuanYeh Lee, Kota Iwahashi, Akifumi Imamura, S Raquel Ramos |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 49808 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |