France launches AI assistant to fight medical fake news

Doctolib - France's leading digital health platform - is preparing to deploy an AI health assistant to provide accurate health information and prevent fake news from spreading on social networks.

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Doctolib co-founder and CEO Stanislas Niox-Chateau said the project is a “ sovereign , French initiative with a strong scientific basis”, built in collaboration with local doctors and researchers. “We want to bring AI to the hands of patients,” he said.

According to a VNA reporter in Paris, Mr. Niox-Chateau emphasized that fake health news is becoming a global pandemic as more and more people self-medicate based on information from TikTok or Instagram.

“Our goal is to take back the initiative in providing reliable health information,” he said.

Doctolib – with more than 50 million users in France – has been an early adopter of AI in clinics through its “digital assistant” that helps doctors with administrative tasks, billing and data transmission to health insurance agencies. Since its launch, around 5 million medical consultations have been supported by AI.

The new assistant is aimed at individual users, offering “authentic and personalized” health content, helping with health monitoring, vaccination updates, screenings and disease prevention recommendations. The app will begin rolling out in the coming weeks.

Doctolib emphasizes that this AI application does not make diagnoses or prescribe, but only provides information and guidance based on official French medical data sources.

The entire service complies with European Union data security standards and the official care procedures of the French health system.

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Source: https://tuoitre.vn/phap-ra-mat-tro-ly-ai-chong-tin-gia-y-te-20251029115348116.htm