Patient Engagement

A prehospital health information exchange in Michigan that provides bidirectional interoperability will bridge ambulatory data gaps and enhance care coordination en route to the hospital and during post-discharge care transitions.

Adding long-range healthcare drones into prescription delivery and lab services, along with supporting health-at-home programs, can reduce care costs and delays, and improve patient experiences, says Keenan Wyrobek, cofounder of Zipline.

The initiative is focusing first on extreme heat events to provide timely excessive heat alerts and tailored outreach to at-risk patients.

New insights from a recent roundtable discussion see stakeholders recognizing the need to balance the promise of artificial intelligence with "ethical considerations, patient engagement and robust regulatory frameworks.

The health system deployed comprehensive virtual care devices in all of its urgent care clinics, vastly improving the patient and provider experiences and boosting the bottom line.

ITI Technology's sales director, Hachang Jung, talks about the company's in-room entertainment and communications system for hospital patients, as well as its new remote patient monitoring system, which is due to be FDA-approved this year.

The women's health app will use the funds to expand its workforce in North America and Europe, scale its reach and enhance its technology.

DarioHealth's experience with self-insured employers bending costs by employing digital therapeutics while simultaneously supporting individuals with chronic conditions has been illuminating, says the company's CMO, Dr. Omar Manejwala.

Stanford Health Care's Troy Foster believes the technology has enormous potential but still is a work in progress. He explains why providers will need to properly socialize and monitor the rollout and implementation of ambient voice.

The founder and CEO of Billy, Cody Coonradt, discusses how the company's app, which displays hospital pricing data by location, can help patients and advocates negotiate prices for medical procedures.