Weekly Roundup – August 19, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week. Helping Children With Gamified Interactive Physiotherapy. Psychiatrist Dr. Geoff Frost struggled to encourage pediatric patients with spinal muscular atrophy to do their necessary exercises. As he explained to Colin Hung, that’s why Raft Digital Therapeutics created a game called Cloud Bazaar to captures a child’s movement as a way to advance the main character through the game. Read more… AWS and 3M Join Forces to Automate Clinical Note Creation. Amazon and 3M are the latest to enter the market for ambient clinical voice products, so John sat down with Detlef Koll at 3M Health Information Systems and Tehsin Syed at Amazon Web Services to talk about why the companies are partnering and what they’re doing differently. Read more… Unpacking Use Cases for VR in Healthcare. At HIMSS, John spent some time at the HTC VIVE to see some demos of virtual reality in action, including VR for surgical prep, VR for physical therapy, and immersive VR as a replacement for anesthesia. Read more… Exploring All-in-One Medical Graphic Stations and Tablets. Operating rooms need high-quality monitors with a lot of processing power so surgeons know exactly what they’re looking at. Robert D...
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