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TL;DR
- Perplexity has added premium health sources to its platform.
- It allows you to access professional medical information obtained from institutional subscriptions and journals.
- This means you can get more accurate health information from Perplexity.
AI chatbots are used for a wide variety of questions, and health concerns are among the more sensitive use cases. After all, the last thing you want is to receive incorrect or completely wrong information about a potentially serious issue. Luckily, Perplexity has announced a major upgrade for medical questions.
distress announced on my blog Its Perplexity computer tool now offers premium health resources:
Premium health sources bring professional medical information that is often behind institutional memberships and specialized tools straight into the perplexity. Instead of relying on general symptom descriptions or vague summaries, people can resort to medical journals, drug databases, and clinical guidelines that provide a level of evidence and clinical detail that is often difficult to find through a standard web search. This makes it easier to get more rigorous medical information directly into answers.
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Perplexity says premium health sources are aimed at regular people asking health questions and healthcare/pharmaceutical teams wanting robust sources for research. Talking about sources, the company says that this new feature uses sources like BMJ Best Practice, BMJ Journals and New England Journal of Medicine. More sources are coming “soon”, including Micromedex, EBSCOhost, Springer Publishing, Health Affairs, and VisualDX for drug information.
Interested in giving it a try? Well, the Perplexity computer will automatically use premium health sources “when a health question demands it.” As you would expect, each answer also includes citations.
This news also comes about two months after Perplexity was first added premium source. This first contingent of sources targeted the business and data research segment, including outlets like Statista, CB Insights, and PitchBook.
Either way, we’d still caution you to verify health-related answers from Perplexity and other chatbots and see a doctor where possible. Because, as we know, it is not uncommon for chatbots to receive misinformation and fabrications.
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