A conversational agent system for dietary supplements use.

Journal: BMC medical informatics and decision making
Published Date: Jul 7, 2022

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Dietary supplements (DS) have been widely used by consumers, but the information around the efficacy and safety of DS is disparate or incomplete, thus creating barriers for consumers to find information effectively. Conversational agent (CA) systems have been applied to healthcare domain, but there is no such system to answer consumers regarding DS use, although widespread use of DS. In this study, we develop the first CA system for DS use.

Authors

  • Esha Singh
    CSE Department, College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
  • Anu Bompelli
    Department of Pharmaceutical Care & Health Systems, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
  • Ruyuan Wan
    CSE Department, College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
  • Jiang Bian
    Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America.
  • Serguei Pakhomov
    Institute for Health Informatics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
  • Rui Zhang
    Department of Cardiology, Zhongda Hospital, Medical School of Southeast University, Nanjing, China.

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