Mobile

A new chatbot on its mobile health app features AI-based avatars that can communicate synchronously with patients through text, voice, or video chat.

The technology, known as Bynahm, is designed to bridge the distance among hospitalized patients and their loved ones, using automation and VR to streamline communication and provide immersive experiences.

The newly launched platform integrates registration, test data sharing, pre-consultation, and remote treatments.

A tour of a lab creating digital health tech to aid brain health – everything from robots to wearables and IOT devices to virtual reality and AI to adaptive robotic pets. Leading the tour: Casey Bennett, health informatics program chair at DePaul University.

This article provides actionable strategies that healthcare organisations can use to optimise their shared mobile device programs with the technology and management practices needed to achieve high-quality, patient-centred care.

Also, Singapore General Hospital is testing a mobile application for newborn jaundice screening.

After over two decades, Institut Jantung Negara has successfully implemented a hospital-wide EMR system, fully integrating technology-enabled patient care.

South Korea's biggest hospital reportedly saved $1.4 million in operational costs after consolidating and virtualising its IT servers.

When employees say yes to unsolicited push notifications, they effectively allow a malicious actor to bypass the controls offered by two-factor authentication – and open a new vulnerability for phishing attacks, or "phushing."

A few months ago, who would have thought that going into a hospital or clinic to meet with your doctor would be considered a high-risk experience? And yet, here we are.