patient education

It has zoom, rotate, and annotate features to help specialists explain procedures to patients virtually.

Digital health platform Sharecare’s new patient education tools include a chatbot, a virtual assistant, a social media aggregator and expanded data visualizations.

The NIH, the National Human Genome Research Institute and PreviewLab have teamed up to create a VR experience that lets participants see how our genes are impacted by environmental factors. 

Seattle-based patient engagement and clinical education provider MedBridge has received a strategic investment from private equity firm LLR Partners.

Hurried conversations, paper brochures, and other long-standing approaches to patient education often fall short of their goals, so it’s little surprise that researchers are eyeing digital technologies as a potential solution.

What constitutes a successful patient portal? Is it enough that patients engage with the portal, or do they actually need to demonstrate that they've learned new information from it? These are questions hospitals are grappling with as they seek to deploy patient portals and meet Meaningful Use guidelines.