In the thousands of hours each year where patients are not in the direct care of their healthcare providers, they are expected to maintain and manage certain aspects of their care journey. These aspects can include keeping up with medications, routine screenings, physical therapy, tracking symptoms, and more.
Care plan adherence is complex; it depends on the patient’s understanding of their...
The healthcare industry presents unique complexities and brings about a wide variety of barriers that healthcare organizations and providers must overcome to implement the most effective care plans for their patients. One key example of these barriers and obstacles is the poor quality of many existing communication channels that providers currently use to support patients virtually in managing...
Amazon has rolled out an update to their program for HIPAA-eligible Alexa skills.
Nowadays, the virtual opportunities to engage with entertainment, information, and other humans are endless. Our attention is pushed and pulled towards every ad and alert that meets our ears or eyes. While consumers grapple to prioritize information they are receiving, the challenge creators face is pushing agendas and messages through the clutter to be the top priority, without overwhelming...
Clinician burnout is well-established and has been studied for over a decade. The health IT community has responded with efficiency tools, training, and programs for clinicians, with a lesser focus on using digital tools to offload this burden by automating processes and equipping clinicians to practice at the top of their license. A recent JAMIA publication found that EHR efficiency tools...
In a matter of months, the term “social distancing” has gone from a hypothetical intervention plan to prevent the spread of a contagious disease to our new normal. It is now a household phrase: splashed across newspapers, stamped on the doors of public buildings, and discussed at the dinner table. As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc worldwide, time continues to pile up since many of us have...
We live in a new world. The novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, has put unprecedented pressures on our healthcare systems and on our society as a whole. And, while it may not feel like it, the pandemic is still in its early phases and we continue to learn more about it each day. For example, many experts, including those in the United States Coronavirus Task Force, have made preliminary statements...
In the past week, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has published an interim enforcement response plan, new enforcement guidance, and other general guidelines related to COVID-19 in the workplace. These new publications and memos assert the heightened attention OSHA is giving to the risks posed by the COVID-19 virus in the workplace.
Recently, Orbita SVP Corporate Strategy Kristi Ebong was invited to participate in a World Economic Forum (WEF) discussion about using chatbots to scale COVID-19 response. Kristi was joined by seven experts from private-sector companies across the world, including Google, Microsoft, and Babylon Health. The session was moderated by Kay Firth-Butterfield, the WEF’s lead of Artificial...
I’ve been thinking more and more about the power of voice in the last year. Two experiences specifically shaped my decision to join the team at Orbita:
As a nurse from a family of clinicians, healthcare was a calling of mine from an early age. In the last decade, I’ve become...
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