Healthcare Innovation October 30, 2024
David Raths

Pieces Technologies’ conversational AI tool allows cancer patients to ask questions about their care, while simultaneously ascertaining information about social determinants of health

Cleveland based academic medical center MetroHealth is partnering with Dallas-based Pieces Technologies Inc. to study a conversational AI agent designed to allow cancer patients to ask questions in real-time about any aspect of their care, while simultaneously ascertaining information about social determinants of health (SDOH).

With a $2 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) within the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Pieces and MetroHealth will deploy and study how PiecesChat converses with patients.

“One barrier to advancing cancer care is the material challenge of getting real, actionable data from...

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Topics: AI (Artificial Intelligence), Health System / Hospital, Patient / Consumer, Provider, Technology
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