Patient Engagement

Medical XR use in psychotherapy and its validity in mental healthcare offerings discussed by Dr. Kim Bullock, a psychiatrist, neuropsychiatrist and founder of the Virtual Reality and Immersive Technology Clinic at Stanford University.  

Also: Cohere Health expedites prior auth through Epic's Payer Platform.

Meanwhile, it's already finding success with AI-enabled patient portals – and ambient scribing is showing big promise too. The Baltimore health system's digital health physician leader explains.

Moving forward, it's working with Epic on EHR chart summarization via artificial intelligence, with an initial focus on inpatient hospital course summary. The top digital health MD tells all.  

Also, New Zealand's My Health Record has expanded access to more personal health information.

Talkdesk can integrate AI with EHRs so patients don't have to repeat information and agents can express empathy in their calls, explains Patty Hayward, the company's healthcare and life sciences GM.

Dr. Brian Hasselfeld, senior medical director of digital health and innovation at Johns Hopkins Medicine, discusses how artificial intelligence helps gain efficiencies throughout the patient journey and enable advances in individual health tracking.

S.A.R.A.H. is a 24/7 digital health promoter prototype, available by video or text in eight languages, trained with biological artificial intelligence to provide health information, including mental health resources.

And the telemedicine technology has increased the number of surgeries. It has enabled surgeons to feel comfortable performing more surgeries knowing they have available the clinical expertise to care for those patients in recovery in the ICU.

Hours a day in different workflows on multiple systems leads to burnout. Nicole Rogas, president of symplr, explains how the company consolidates systems and uses AI to automate workflows - leading to more time for patients.