AI in Healthcare April 26, 2019
Dave Pearson

Safeway stores in Arizona are opening health clinics that combine AI, augmented reality and telemedicine to offer grocery shoppers a convenient way to be seen for illnesses and injuries.

The clinics are part of an existing joint venture between telehealth company Akos and AI/augmented reality innovator AdviNow Medical. The pair’s move into Safeway, which operates 106 stores in Arizona, expands the concept.

The Arizona Republic covered the development at its online outlet AZCentral.

“Patients go into exam rooms on their own and a computerized program guides them through providing key physical information using FDA-approved wireless devices that can collect medical measurements such as temperature, ear, nose...

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Topics: AI (Artificial Intelligence), Health System / Hospital, Metaverse/VR, Patient / Consumer, Physician, Primary care, Provider, Retailer, Technology, Telehealth
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