Healthcare IT News May 22, 2020
Kat Jercich

Voice and health AI technology company Orbita developed software to help nurses respond more efficiently to patients who need assistance while in care.

A few years ago, says Orbita’s EVP of Patient Care Solutions Nick White, the father of one of his colleagues fell in the hospital after routine surgery.

He’d needed to use the bathroom, White explained during a recent HIMSS20 Digital presentation, but a nurse hadn’t responded to his call for help. When he eventually tried to get up on his own, he’d slipped and fallen, breaking his hip.

Unfortunately, that led to a decline, White said during his talk, How Conversational AI Can Meet the Needs of Mobility Impaired and Isolated Patients. His colleague’s father eventually passed...

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