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Aug 24, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

How MedGuard Embeds Fact‑Checking into Telemedicine to Guard Diagnostic Safety

MedGuard, an LLM‑based gatekeeper co‑developed by Ant Group’s AI Safety Lab and Xiamen University, inserts medical fact‑checking into online consultations, extracts atomic claims, uses uncertainty‑driven evidence retrieval, and outperforms baselines while earning high clinician approval for safety and usability.