Incident came to light when online concerns were raised over privacy of patients using award-winning app, and doubts that student was sole inventor
Two Hong Kong government departments have launched an investigation into an award-winning medication prescription app invented by a student that had already been in use by a clinic three years earlier, the Post has learned.
The Digital Policy Office and Education Bureau said they were studying the mobile app that a student surnamed Poon, from St Paul’s Co-educational College in Mid-Levels, submitted in competitions as her invention.
Poon declined to respond to online accusations calling her “a fake inventor”, but told the Post she was going through the verification process with competition organisers.
Her father, Ronnie Poon Tung-ping, is one of two doctors at a specialist clinic in Central that commissioned a US-based artificial intelligence (AI) software development agency to create the app in 2022, which was subsequently deployed.
