Hospital teams up with ‘Sesame Street’: 6 things to know

Becker's Healthcare October 23, 2024
Giles Bruce

A California hospital’s work with “Sesame Street” is helping advance digital health.

Here are six things to know:

1. Children’s Hospital Los Angeles recently connected Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit that produces “Sesame Street,” with Augment Therapy, a digital health startup the hospital helped develop through its KidsX Accelerator program.

2. “Sesame Street” characters such as Elmo and Cookie Monster appear in Augment Therapy’s augmented reality physical therapy mobile app. Kids, for instance, mimic Elmo’s movements — say, lifting their arms over their heads — or grab virtual cookies with Cookie Monster. Augment Therapy licenses the use of the characters.

3. This marks the first time “Sesame Street” characters are being used in a rehabilitation setting in healthcare, according to Omkar...

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