Amazon has two new programs that integrate Alexa into hospitals and senior living communities, the company announced today. They'll run through Alexa Smart Properties, which allows organizations to control a centralized Alexa system.
We live in a digital age, so it’s not surprising that the healthcare industry follows suit. From the data-driven insights of wearables to mobile apps that help manage chronic conditions, it’s clear that technology is changing healthcare forever.
Alphabet’s Google is "still all in on health," according to its chief health officer, despite the demise of its recent attempt at a formalized business unit for the health-care sector. The tech giant founded Google Health in 2018 and at one point grew it to 500 employees, but dissolved the unit in August.
Nine years ago, Dr. Russ Bessette created a new technology. "You go to the doctor and get a blood test," said Dr. Bessette. "They say you’re healthy, you’re good, but you don’t know how good is good. Are you at the edge, are you about to fall off?" From 2000 to 2012, he developed an algorithm that can track illness progression, results of medical treatment and the estimated cost of care.
OSF HealthCare, which operates locations in Illinois including OSF Saint Anthony's Health Center in Alton and OSF Children's Hospital in Peoria, joined SWITCH, a new independent organization launched by City Tech Collaborative to address health equity in Chicago.
SWITCH stands for Sustainable Wellness through Innovation, Technology, & Collaborative Health. Its mission is to increase health equity and improve community health delivery and wellness outcomes in Chicago's most underserved communities, OSF wrote in a press release. Solutions will be developed by engaging residents and patients to ensure they have an active voice in solution creation; leveraging a robust racial equity and inclusion methodology to address inherent bias in existing solution development processes.
Children’s Health of Orange County, a California-based pediatric healthcare system, is working with other medical institutions to gather clinical images — MRIs, echocardiograms, and the like. The goal: to create a repository of images to analyze for insights that could train algorithms capable of aiding clinicians with diagnoses.