Patient Engagement
The rural health system is in a designated Health Provider Shortage Area. Among many other benefits, virtual care is giving patients access to care they otherwise could not receive without massive travel.
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Digital cognitive assessments analyze a patient's voice and responses to better inform cognitive care and reduce clinicians' administrative burden, explains Dr. John Showalter, CPO at Linus Health.
QR codes designed to improve data transfer can entice healthcare data breaches. Sharat Potharaju of Beaconstac shares advice on how to safely bolster data security while providing patients the ease of mobile access.
The cost of health inequities can negatively impact business, says Dr. Jay Bhatt, managing director at Deloitte, who explains why healthcare organizations should factor health equity into each business decision they make.
Femtech developer Aspira Women's Health signs with Dana Farber to license a biomarker-based ovarian cancer diagnostic, a Madrona Venture Labs spin-out adds GPT-enabled virtual agents to billing automation and Dave, an LLM oncology tool, is born.
AI-enabled care coordination enables patient-specific decision-making at the point of care. Kathy D. Ford, chief product and strategy officer at Project Rōnin, explains.
Smartphone tools can help improve health equity by improving care access and empowering patients to collect and transmit their own data via wearables, says Anna Schoenbaum, VP of information services applications at Penn Medicine.
Urban Health Plan tested eClinicalWorks' healow prediction algorithm and increased its show rate for the patients most likely to miss their appointments by 154% with targeted interventions.
Also, Orygen's digital mental health platform is slated for an impact evaluation.