{
  "id": 9548,
  "url": "https://doi.org/10.2196/56930",
  "title": "Roles, Users, Benefits, and Limitations of Chatbots in Health Care: Rapid Review",
  "summary": "BACKGROUND: Chatbots, or conversational agents, have emerged as significant tools in health care, driven by advancements in artificial intelligence and digital technology. These programs are designed to simulate human conversations, addressing various health care needs. However, no comprehensive synthesis of health care chatbots' roles, users, benefits, and limitations is available to inform future research and application in the field. OBJECTIVE: This review aims to describe health care chatbot",
  "authors": "Moustafa Laymouna, Yuanchao Ma, David Lessard, Tibor Schuster, Kim Engler, Bertrand Lebouché",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "healthcare,agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2024-04-12T00:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:33:57.577Z",
  "source_slug": "openalex",
  "source_name": "OpenAlex",
  "source_homepage": "https://openalex.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/9548",
  "original_url": "https://doi.org/10.2196/56930",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}