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Researchers fix critical mistakes in medical mobile apps

Medical Xpress - medical research advances and health news
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Medical score calculators can be downloaded by anyone and are popular among less experienced health care staff.

But the apps are rife with errors, sometimes because of flawed source data from medical reference tables.

NJIT researchers have found mathematically provable solutions that may save lives.

Overall, the team found significant errors in 14 of 90 Android applications.

More information: Sydur Rahaman et al, Diagnosing Medical Score Calculator Apps, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies ( 2023 ). DOI: 10.1145/3610912 Provided by New Jersey Institute of TechnologyThis story was originally published on Medical Xpress . Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates..

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