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By the end of July number of health systems, health technology, and technology-skilled companies stepped forward to sign on to the CMS-introduced pledges to ‘make health tech great again’. The pledges aim to achieve compassionate goals, including ‘killing the clipboard’, enabling personalized support, and aligning patients with care. Now, it's exciting to see the signatories' progress on achieving these goals. K Health, an AI-empowered primary care leader the advancement is sticking strong with the existing strategies and product to the excellent vision of the health tech ecosystem efforts. In one of the interviews, Ethan Fischer, Vice President of Strategy and Business Development at K Health, discussed the decision to sign the pledge, its intention to connect with CMS efforts, and its expectations from the CMS.
Been a part of this initiative, K Health pledged to form communicable AI assistants that match the CMS aligned networks or personal health record apps, including patient consent, safe access to suitable health information, and use this information to serve helpful and personalized support. Fischer underlined that the company’s platform consists of conversational AI potency, ticking it as a ‘natural fit’ for the federal initiative. Fischer stressed the term ‘interoperability’ as it's essential to extend healthcare access and enhance the outcomes, mainly for the most vulnerable individuals. He also specified the importance of interoperability by showing anecdotes of his grandparents living in Tennessee, a rural area.
K Health is embedding its technology into EMR and patient-facing applications, with the potential to gather consent. Following this, Fischer demonstrated that improving patient consent potency within the conversational AI tools will be complex to move ahead with the initiatives’ interoperability motive.
The company’s platform has emerged, with AI integration to its platform to merge information listed by patients, such as their symptoms, with EHR data to give healthcare providers a precise take on the patient’s health and how it might impact their current concerns. K Health looks up to CMS’s health tech ecosystem initiatives as an upliftment of these efforts to partner with healthcare stakeholders. The initiatives have two sharp goals: one is to develop an interoperability framework to safely and enhance information sharing between providers and patients, and elevate access to personalized tools. Today, K Health is partnering with numerous significant health systems, including Hackensack Meridian Health and Cedars-Sinai.
Deepa Pandey is a healthcare market research expert with 2+ years of experience, specializing in analyzing market trends, regulatory impacts, and emerging opportunities to guide strategic decision-making in the healthcare sector.
