Prentice Tom, MD is Chief Medical Officer at Kintsugi, the AI-based mental health platform that helps clinicians detect depression and anxiety in patients using just 20 seconds of free-form speech.
Many great ideas fail because of a fundamental misunderstanding or underestimation of the unique barriers entrenched within healthcare. Here are some key considerations that innovators from non-healthcare backgrounds need to be prepared for.
To make mental health screening a routine part of primary care, we need innovative solutions. Emerging technologies, particularly artificial intelligence (AI), are paving the way.
The ongoing nursing shortage facilitates high turnover rates since nurses know they won’t have difficulties finding new jobs. In order to retain and attract staff, it’s in a facility’s best interest to understand what nurses want.
Novel health technologies are allowing us to move into a new era of equality and improved access to healthcare for everyone, eliminating the barriers between people and healthcare, by putting the patient at the center of care versus the provider.