Quality Care

Experts emphasized the value of proactive approaches, meaningful interactions and seamless connections to human support while using AI-enabled chatbots in healthcare.

Local players are also expected to scale at an international level.

Experts discussed new emergency department models using telemedicine to build trust in virtual healthcare environments and public-private sector collaboration.  

Disability-care focused Kismet recently raised $8 million in seed funding in the United States.

Various factors around ROI on virtual tech should be considered before implementation, such as billing revenue, increased efficiency, downstream revenue and improved outcomes, said experts at the HIMSS24 preconference Virtual Care Forum.

Augmented reality and virtual technologies are shaping innovative approaches in operating rooms, mental health care and patient monitoring.

The patch provides continuous glucose monitoring, sends readings directly to a wearer's smartphone and supplies personal insights into one's glucose health.

Also, Medibank's health service unit has tied up with Amwell to support the virtual delivery of its new preventative care program.

DAX copilot will be embedded into Epic systems and use generative AI to help providers focus more on patients and less on administrative tasks such as clinical notes.

The healthcare system will translate its advanced algorithms pertaining to rapid response clinical scenarios into AvoMD's application.