{"id":205170,"date":"2026-04-23T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/new-conversational-ai-tool-uses-trusted-medical-protocols-to-help-people-decide-when-to-seek-care\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T12:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:05:12","slug":"new-conversational-ai-tool-uses-trusted-medical-protocols-to-help-people-decide-when-to-seek-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/new-conversational-ai-tool-uses-trusted-medical-protocols-to-help-people-decide-when-to-seek-care\/","title":{"rendered":"New Conversational AI Tool Uses Trusted Medical Protocols to Help People Decide When to Seek Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/today.ucsd.edu\/story\/new-conversational-ai-tool-uses-trusted-medical-protocols-to-help-people-decide-when-to-seek-care\">New Conversational AI Tool Uses Trusted Medical Protocols to Help People Decide When to Seek Care<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/today.ucsd.edu\/story\/new-conversational-ai-tool-uses-trusted-medical-protocols-to-help-people-decide-when-to-seek-care\">https:\/\/today.ucsd.edu\/story\/new-conversational-ai-tool-uses-trusted-medical-protocols-to-help-people-decide-when-to-seek-care<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-23 11:55:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"today.ucsd.edu\">today.ucsd.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A conversational AI system trained on 100 step-by-step medical flowcharts created by the American Medical Association has been developed.<\/li>\n<li>The system enables customization to fit provider-specific protocols and offers full control over clinical logic by the healthcare organizations.<\/li>\n<li>Three AI agents work together during a conversation to guide issues like abdominal pain: identifying the issue, interpreting patient responses, and translating clinical questions into patient-friendly language.<\/li>\n<li>The chatbot follows decision-making steps with over 99% accuracy based on clinician-validated flowcharts, providing transparency in its recommendations.<\/li>\n<li>The chatbot is intended to support clinicians by offloading triage tasks and should not replace them; clinicians can review the conversations and provide direct care when necessary.<\/li>\n<li>The team plans to test the chatbot with real patients and integrate it into electronic health record systems.<\/li>\n<li>Future developments include a mobile app version, support for voice input, multiple languages, and image sharing to enhance accessibility.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Conversational AI Tool Uses Trusted Medical Protocols to Help People Decide When to Seek&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":205171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/today.ucsd.edu\/teaser_uploads\/_social\/AI-self-triage-TEASER.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205172,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205170\/revisions\/205172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}