Digital Health

Gastroenterologists typically have to rely on a patient's self-reported information about their stools, which can be unreliable. An artificial intelligence tool being developed by Durham, N.C.-based Duke University researchers will analyze a patient's stool for them.

Google's voice assistant is better than Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri at understanding medication names when asked by users, but Alexa and Siri are closing the gap, according to a May 19 study published in Frontiers in Digital Health.

UPMC Health Plan rolled out a tool May 24 that lets members learn more about their benefits and health insurance topics by voicing questions to Amazon Alexa and Google Home Assistant devices.  

Hospitals' COVID-19 infection control efforts include a bevvy of contactless technologies to reduce virus transmission. Below are four hospital CIOs' thoughts about which tools will remain in use once the pandemic is declared over and which ones will be phased…

Best Buy Health on May 20 launched a smartphone equipped with virtual care capabilities that can connect older adults to urgent care and response services. 

Banner Health is launching a new digital health program with Xealth to scale digital therapeutics and remote monitoring services across the Phoenix-based health system and its Cerner EHR, the companies announced May 20. 

Wellstar Health System has established a new digital health and innovation center focused on initiatives to improve health equity, aging and children, and sustainability, the Marietta, Ga.-based health system announced May 18. 

Concussion diagnosis company Oculogica, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay are collaborating on wearable devices that detect concussions in military personnel and athletes, according to a May 18 news release.

CommonHealth, a free app providing Android users with mobile access to their health records, said May 19 it has partnered with more than 385 health systems.

Just as users can snap photos on an app to classify their house plants, Google is launching an AI tool that can classify skin conditions, according to a May 18 press conference.