Developed by a Hong Kong secondary school student, the AI healthcare assistant platform 'Medisafe' has recently sparked a 'gunshot' controversy. A foreign website, 'AI Health Studio', claimed that it assisted in creating the Medisafe platform in eight weeks, later changing its statement to say it helped with the software's 'commercialization'. After nearly two months of the incident, the founder of the website, Ahmed Jemaa, issued a statement on Monday (4th), stating that he was entrusted by 'Dr. Roberta Pang', the mother of the involved secondary school student, to handle the project, but was never informed that it would be used for competition. Afterwards, the other party indicated that they wanted to pay to control public opinion, requesting the company to define 'Medisafe' as 'commercial promotion' rather than 'from-scratch build'. The founder of the foreign website, Ahmed Jemaa, posted a four-page statement on LinkedIn yesterday. Website founder: The company received payment for developing Medisafe. The AI healthcare assistant online platform 'Medisafe', developed by a secondary school student, claims that it can help doctors prescribe drugs by comparing drug databases through artificial intelligence. However, the project previously sparked controversy over non-originality, as a foreign website claimed that it assisted in developing the Medisafe platform in eight weeks, later changing its statement to say it helped with the software's 'commercialization'. The Geneva Award jury previously stated that they had carefully reviewed the case and believed that the contestant's submitted information was valid and met the competition standards, so the silver award will remain. The founder of the foreign website, Ahmed Jemaa, posted a four-page statement on LinkedIn yesterday, confirming that the company received payment to develop a drug prescription platform project (i.e., 'Medisafe'), but stated that this was not intended for academic competition purposes, and did not expect it to eventually compete in three local and international competitions and win a total of eight awards, stating frankly that 'it was very unfair to other contestants'. Clicking on the 'Visit Website' section on the foreign website will lead to the 'Medisafe' website. (Website screenshot) Statement: The development was only for a minimum viable product, which is a proof of concept. The statement said that the company, during the period from March 2024 to June 2025, was entrusted by 'Dr. Roberta Pang' (i.e., Dr. Roberta Pang, assistant professor of the Department of Surgery at the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, and also the mother of the involved secondary school student), to develop the project in three phases, but was never informed that it would be used for competition. The statement said that the development was only for a minimum viable product (Minimum Viable Product), i.e., a product prototype with basic functions launched at the lowest cost, and also said that the development was only a proof of concept, not an official production system. After the incident escalated, the company realized the event only after it noticed that the number of Hong Kong visitors on the website was 45 times higher than that of other regions. The statement said that after the incident escalated, the company received a request from Dr. Roberta Pang on June 16 to remove Medisafe's information from the AI Health Studio website. Although the company felt hesitant, it still removed it. Only after a few days did they realize that their website traffic had increased sharply, and the number of Hong Kong visitors was 45 times higher than that of other regions, leading them to realize the incident. The statement said that Dr. Roberta Pang had requested the company to revise the wording of the case study, defining the AI platform as 'commercial promotion' rather than 'from-scratch build'. The statement emphasized that although the client had provided initial ideas, the company had indeed built it from scratch, and the other party had never provided any code, UX (user experience) design, etc. Recently, some people claimed that the 'Medisafe' AI healthcare assistant platform, which has won multiple innovation awards, is not independently developed by the developers, but has hired foreign companies to assist in the development, sparking controversy. (Digital Office) After the incident escalated, Dr. Roberta Pang indicated that she was willing to pay to continue shaping the message. (continued involvement in shaping the public and institutional messaging). However, the company felt uncomfortable with this and subsequently stopped communication. The statement said that the company had provided all evidence to the Hong Kong Gifted Education Institute, but after further inquiries, no response was received. The Hong Kong Gifted Education Academy, which is funded by the Education Bureau and commissioned by the Hong Kong Association for the New Generation, arranged the selection and training of students to participate in the Geneva International Invention Exhibition. The Hong Kong Gifted Education Academy contacted the company, and on July 15, replied that the student who participated in the competition had already submitted the project to the organizing committee in January 2024, before the company's involvement, and there was sufficient reason to believe that the work was original and completed independently by the student. Ahmed Jemaa said that the statement was not made to seek glory, but to avoid covering up the truth. He mentioned that when the Hong Kong Gifted Education Academy (HKAGE) launched an investigation, the company had provided all evidence, but after a few weeks, the case was closed, and when they further inquired about how the decision was made, they received no response. 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