Patient Engagement
In a partnership with the Denver Housing Authority, the health system has installed on-site equipment and held monthly workshops – increasing patient portal activation to 63% from 58% across five DHA communities.
A new study looked at how AI and NLP could be used in a post-acute discharge patient engagement program to address factors beyond social determinants of health and address emotional, behavioral and other barriers to recovery.
According to E.U. project Label2Enable's Petra Hoogendoorn, there is demand from both patients and doctors for centrally filtered and recommended healthcare apps.
Sen. Mark Warner has questions for Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai about Med-PaLM 2, a chatbot currently being piloted at the Mayo Clinic and elsewhere. "I worry that premature deployment of unproven technology could lead to the erosion of trust," he says.
With remote therapeutic monitoring, care teams are alerted and can intervene quickly when a patient is concerned or isn’t progressing as expected. Early action potentially can prevent complications and avoid unnecessary ED visits.
The ATA said the agency's notice about the listening sessions to be held in September could pave the way for "remote prescribing of medically necessary controlled substances without an in-person visit."
Kamala Green, social drivers of health program manager at National Government Services, explains how the law and other efforts like it will address challenges around SDOH to make quality care accessible to all.
At One Brooklyn Health System, tools such as the Brooklyn Health Equity Index survey are helping serve up valuable real-time insights to help develop training, policies and procedures that address racial disparities and social determinants.
Together, they'll develop strategies to promote reliability, transparency and safety for LLMs and other generative artificial intelligence models, said Dr. Jeffrey Ferranti, Duke Health's chief digital officer.
Parkland Health leveraged digital tools to empower patients and staff and make healthcare more accessible, according to Joe Longo, SVP and Dr. Brett Moran, SVP, Associate CMO and CMIO.