Johns Hopkins medical students develop app to check your medical symptoms

Two fourth-year Johns Hopkins School of Medicine students, Craig Monsen and David Do, have recently created a web site [Symcat.com] that is smartphone compatible and helps determine disease pathology based on symptoms that you input into the system.

Called Symcat, (symptoms-based, computer-assisted triage) the app allows the user to enter in various ailments such as a fever, cough, swelling etc. and receive an instant diagnosis.

Using sophisticated algorithms, Symcat ranks the most likely medical conditions and gives suggestions for treatment based on aggregate patient data and triage guidelines from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.