The Personalization of Healthcare and Healthcare Chatbots

At HIMSS 2017, I did a plethora of videos where I was interviewing people and even more where people were interviewing me. Many of those videos are just now starting to leak out onto the internet. One of those videos where I was interviewed was with the team from Availity. They had a great team there that interviewed a bunch of the HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors including me.

I’ll admit that I was pretty tired when I did this interview at the end of the day, right before the New Media Meetup at HIMSS. However, I think the interview shares some high-level views on what’s happening in healthcare IT and important topics coming out of the conference. Check out the full video to learn the details:

I like that I talked about the personalization of healthcare and then healthcare chatbots in the same video interview. Some people might see these as opposites. How can talking with a healthcare chatbot be more personal than a human?

The answer to that question has two parts. First, a chatbot can quickly analyze a lot more information to personalize the experience than a human can do. Notice that I said personalization and not personal. There’s a subtle but important difference in those two words. Second, I didn’t clarify this in the video, but the healthcare chatbot will not fully replace the care provider. Instead, it will just replace the care provider from having to do the mundane tasks that the providers hate doing. Done correctly, the healthcare chatbot will fee up the providers to be able to focus on providing patients a more personalized and personal experience. That’s something we would all welcome in healthcare.

All of this health data we are amassing on patients is going to make both the healthcare chatbot and the human healthcare provider better able to give you a personalized experience. That’s a great thing.

Since in the video I also recommended that people follow Rasu Shrestha, MD, you may also want to check out the video interview Rasu did with Availity:

I love the idea that we go to conferences to not just learn something, but to unlearn things. Rasu is great!

About the author

John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

   

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