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Chat Bots in Healthcare

Regard Launches Chatbot + Clinical Workflow LLM, Powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4

by Syed Hamza Sohail 08/30/2023 Leave a Comment

Regard Launches Chatbot + Clinical Workflow LLM, Powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4

What You Should Know: Regard, a software company developing an artificial intelligence (AI) co-pilot for clinicians to help diagnose medical conditions, announced today that it has expanded its relationship with OpenAI, an AI research and development company.Through this relationship, Regard will release new core product functionalities and a new chatbot, Max, that is built on OpenAI's large language model (LLM), GPT-4. AI-Driven Research and Development in Healthcare Investing in
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El Camino Health Offers Personalized Chatbot to Patients with COPD

by Jasmine Pennic 02/05/2020 Leave a Comment

El Camino Health Offers Personalized Virtual Chatbot to Patients with COPD

- El Camino Health is now offering personalized virtual health assistant to patients suffering from COPD via Conversa Health partnership designed to improve respiratory care coordination and patient experience. - Innovative 2 BREATHE (Be Resilient EAch Time after a Hospital Event) chat program leverages Conversa’s patient engagement platform assigns patients with a respiratory therapist and a pulmonary nurse practitioner for personalized treatment to help patients breathe easier.
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Microsoft Develops New Chatbot to Match Patients to Clinical Trials Easier

by Jasmine Pennic 03/05/2019 Leave a Comment

Microsoft Develops New Chatbot to Match Patients to Clinical Trials Easier

Microsoft has developed a clinical trials chatbot designed to optimize matching patients with appropriate clinical trials, Bloomberg first reports. By using AI-driven machine reading technology to ingest the selection criteria for each clinical trial, the chatbot uses this data to determine which questions to ask patients and matches their answers to suitable clinical trials. The chatbot initially started as a hackathon project at Microsoft’s Corp’s lab in Israel and is part of a larger
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Can Bots Take the Patient Experience to the Next Level?

by Aditya Bansod, CTO and co-founder at Luma Health 10/03/2018 Leave a Comment

Can Bots Take Patient Communications to the Next Level?

In today’s mobile-first environment, it’s somewhat surprising that nearly 30 percent of healthcare providers still use phone calls — and only phone calls — to ensure patients make it into their scheduled appointments. While fewer Americans tend to answer their phone calls, they do use their phones for text messaging. In healthcare, the benefits of text message appointment reminders are increasingly recognized and on the rise, but this is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to providing a
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Health Navigator, Macadamian Partner to bring Health triage to Consumers with New Alexa Skill

by Fred Pennic 08/07/2018 Leave a Comment

Health Navigator, Macadamian Partner to bring Health triage to Consumers with New Alexa Skill

 Health Navigator, a company that delivers clinical content for digital health, telemedicine, and eHealth, has partnered with Macadamian, a healthcare-focused software design, and development consulting firm, to develop and demonstrate a proof-of-concept skill for voice-enabled digital assistants. The Alexa Skill lets people seek health information and care advice through their digital assistant anytime, anywhere.Recent surveys from the Pew Research Center show 80 percent of internet users
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Accenture: 61% of Consumers Have Used Virtual Health Assistants

by Jasmine Pennic 03/06/2018 Leave a Comment

Accenture: 61% of Consumers Have Used Virtual Health Assistants

Consumers are increasingly using a variety of digital self-service tools for managing their health, according to results of a survey from Accenture 2018 Consumer Survey on Digital Health released this week at HIMSS18.The survey of 2,301 U.S. consumers reveals that consumers are becoming more accepting of machines — ranging from artificial intelligence (AI), to virtual clinicians and home-based diagnostics — having a significantly greater role in their overall medical care. For example, one in
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doc.ai Raises $2.3M in Pre-ICO for Blockchain-Enabled NLP for Quantified Biology

by Jasmine Pennic 09/11/2017 Leave a Comment

doc.ai Raises $2.3M in Pre-ICO for Blockchain-Enabled NLP for Quantified Biology

doc.ai Incorporated (“doc.ai”), a San Francisco, CA-based digital health startup building  an advanced natural language processing technology platform for quantified biology has raised $2.3 million in pre-ICO (initial coin offering) or initial sale of Simple Agreements for Future Tokens ("SAFTs"). A total of ten purchasers acquired SAFTs led by Pantera Capital.The early pre-sale of doc.ai's SAFTs, which are convertible into digital tokens named Neurons ("NRNs"), was limited to existing investors
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doc.ai Launches First Blockchain-Enabled NLP for Quantified Biology

by Fred Pennic 08/25/2017 Leave a Comment

doc.ai Launches First Blockchain-Enabled NLP for Quantified Biology

doc.ai Incorporated ("doc.ai"), a San Francisco, CA-based digital health startup has announced the launch of its blockchain-enabled natural language processing (NLP) platform for quantified biology. Founded by the entrepreneurial Walter De Brouwer in 2016, doc.ai utilizes the blockchain to timestamp its datasets and decentralize artificial intelligence to generate insights from combined medical data.doc.ai is building a new platform for established medical companies to enable patients to have
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Chinese Search Engine Launches AI-Powered Bot for Doctors & Patients

by Fred Pennic 10/11/2016 Leave a Comment

Chinese search engine Baidu Inc., today launched Melody the Medical Assistant, an AI-powered conversational bot that helps doctors gather information from patients about their medical conditions. Baidu Melody is designed to save doctors and patients time in online discussions and provide relevant, contextual information to doctors to assist with recommendations and treatment options. The announcement was made at a Baidu Health and AI Workshop held today in Beijing. Melody is available
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TigerText Unveils Chat Bot to Streamline Care Coordination, Patient Experience

by HITC Staff 05/13/2016 Leave a Comment

TigerText Multiple Devices Healthcare

TigerText, maker of TigerConnect, a secure communications platform, today announced the availability of HealthBot, an encrypted, custom-branded, HIPAA-compliant messaging chat bot app that can be embedded into a web page or mobile application to help automate a range of tasks, driving organizational efficiencies and lowering overall costs. How It Works Through a simple chat window, patients can interact with HealthBot to schedule appointments, inquire about a drug’s side effects, or receive
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