Modern and simple — it's both the foundation behind Allina Health's new wayfinding initiative as well as its basis for communicating with consumers.
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When prompted to connect users with addiction treatments or treatment referral services, automated voice assistants from Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung were largely unhelpful, a recent study found.
In areas of the U.S. where affordable, comprehensive reproductive healthcare is difficult to find, many confused and anxious patients turn to the internet for answers — and physicians are providing them.
Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health announced on Feb. 4 that it has been deploying conversational artificial intelligence to improve patient engagement for several months, with "significant" results, according to Chief Digital Officer Neil Gomes.
When asked to imagine a future in which patients rely on digital tools that keep them at the center of their own healthcare, almost 50 percent of the American workers surveyed in a recent Mercer report found the vision "appealing."
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In the United States, healthcare expenditures far outpace the rest of the industrialized world, without an improvement in outcomes that matter. Moreover, within the United States, there is wide variation in the performance of providers in caring for complex patients.
HealthTech Arkansas, a healthcare accelerator program backed by 10 local hospitals and health systems, opened applications on Feb. 1 for its second cohort of startups developing new digital health software, connected medical devices and diagnostic platforms.
Twistle, which develops patient education and communication software for healthcare providers, closed an $18 million funding round with participation from Renton, Wash.-based Providence and Wilmington, Del.-based ChristianaCare, per a Jan. 30 news release.
Nicholas Desai, MD, is the chief medical information officer of Houston Methodist, where he leads the health system's wide variety of clinical IT and innovation efforts.
SOLVE Health Tech, the University of California San Francisco's health equity accelerator, has begun a research project to identify and eliminate barriers preventing underserved populations from accessing healthcare technology.