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The app provides personalised treatment guidance to users based on their BP record, habit logs and behavioural changes.

Services such as Healthbox help health systems get from where they are to where they want to be, says Justin Gernot, vice president of Healthbox.

The study also found patients in the 24-week group had a 27% decrease in unique hospital encounters compared with the group who only received one prescription.

Informatics is enabling nurses to spend more time with patients and families, says Kassaundra McKnight-Young, senior clinical informaticist at the Truman Medical Center.

The bulk of participants using the Woebot chatbot said they would recommend the technology. 

The platform allows for image collection and management from multisite trials and the homes of study participants.

As part of the new multimodal service, patients can talk to a doctor virtually and get their prescription in the mail. 

The device can help reduce injuries that sonographers get from operating large diagnostic machines while producing 3D diagnostic outputs.

According to Humanforce research, many Australian employees prefer to work with vaccinated colleagues.