Patient Engagement
Western Australia Country Health Service board chair Dr Neale Fong shares how they are enabling telemedicine and remote patient monitoring.
Emteq Labs launches its emotion-sensing eyewear, Sense, which collects and records real-world data on a wearer’s facial expressions. Steen Strand, CEO, talks about the glasses' potential use cases for healthcare.
Patients have always been at the top of mind of Samsung Medical Center and its digitalisation agenda, shares CTO Jong-Soo Choi.
Dr. Waheed Arian, NHS physician and Arian Wellbeing's founder, discusses how his experiences as an Afghan refugee helped shape the company’s adaptable, trauma-informed approach to behavioral healthcare.
Josh Wymer, chief health information and data strategy officer at the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, discusses a genAI chatbot the state uses and the value of both trust and data transparency in public and community health.
They recognize the promises of faster diagnosis and easier access to treatment and cost info, says Mark Polyak, president of analytics at Ipsos. While they're comfortable with AI for administrative tasks, they're wary of clinical applications.
Large language models are "enabling a new level of patient empowerment" by helping people understand clinical notes, navigate insurance claims and much more, says Dr. Chethan Sarabu, AI and informatics strategist at OpenNotes.
It's not enough to just mitigate implicit bias: AI tools should be harnessed promote access for the underserved, says Dr. Antoine Keller, cardiothoracic surgeon at Ochsner Lafayette Hospital, who highlights a portable diagnostics tool that's helping.
Luca Chittaro of Italy's University of Udine talks about how immersive virtual reality stories can gamify physical therapy to help distract from pain and encourage patients to increase treatment compliance.
Radiation oncologist Dr. Raghav Murali-Ganesh, cofounder and CEO of Osara Health, shows how tracking symptoms can help patients live 30% longer compared with those who don’t write down how they feel.
