Patients forget 40-80% of medical information immediately after discharge

Patients forget 40-80% of medical information immediately after discharge

Patients forget 40-80% of medical information immediately after discharge

How do doctors' in clinic make sure patients don't forget instructions?

How do doctors' in clinic make sure patients don't forget instructions?

How do doctors' in clinic make sure patients don't forget instructions?

How do doctors' in clinic make sure patients don't forget instructions?

Doctors' in-clinic solution

Perform teach-back method with patients to make them understand the medical instructions easily.

Perform teach-back method with patients to make them understand the medical instructions easily.

Interaction between clinician and patient in clinic

Interaction between clinician and patient in clinic

Interaction between clinician and patient in clinic

Interaction between clinician and patient in clinic

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Doctor explains medical instructions
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Doctor explains medical instructions

What's wrong with current teach-back scenario?

What's wrong with current teach-back scenario?

What's wrong with current teach-back scenario?

Doctors just have 8 minutes to perform teach-back post

Not every instruction can be just verbal (e.g., inhaler demo)

Hospitals that care for quality want to see reduction in readmission rates

The focus

How might we design an at-home teach-back that saves doctors' time and is more efficient for patients?

How might we design an at-home teach-back that saves doctors' time and is more efficient for patients?

Solution

Prior to our Voice AI solution, there was no at-home teach-back

Prior to our Voice AI solution, there was no at-home teach-back

Prior to our Voice AI solution, there was no at-home teach-back

Prior to our Voice AI solution, there was no at-home teach-back

Doctors just get 8 minutes to conduct teach back because they need to do documentation in the EMR system as well. However, teach-back takes time and patience. Even after a successful teach-back session, patients need to refer the pamphlets at home incase they forget the medical instructions. Hence, the voice AI could be the future for teach-back.

Patient watches the video that is assigned by clinician

When patients go home, they are assigned instructional videos to watch but there is no way to know if patients are confused or not. And hence, the strength of Voice AI.

Patients perform teach-back in chunks while seeing the video

Journey of the concept that became "the solution"

Journey of the concept that became "the solution"

Journey of the concept that became "the solution"

Initial concept: Gamified instruction learning with virtual buddy

Initial concept: Gamified instruction learning with virtual buddy

Initial concept: Gamified instruction learning with virtual buddy

Initial concept: Gamified instruction learning with virtual buddy

Feedback from testing: Patients already have anxiety, gamification about their medical instructions could backfire. Also, teach back is not a quiz!

Iteration: Chunking helps us digest overwhelming information

Iteration: Chunking helps us digest overwhelming information

Iteration: Chunking helps us digest overwhelming information

Iteration: Chunking helps us digest overwhelming information

Feedback from testing: Patients loved the aspect of chunking but there were some concerns regarding the use of AI with healthcare.

Iteration: Started with Colonoscopy instructions but planned to scale it to a framework of activities

Iteration: Started with Colonoscopy instructions but planned to scale it to a framework of activities

Iteration: Started with Colonoscopy instructions but planned to scale it to a framework of activities

Iteration: Started with Colonoscopy instructions but planned to scale it to a framework of activities

Concerns regarding the solution & future steps

Concerns regarding the solution & future steps

Concerns regarding the solution & future steps

Concerns regarding the solution & future steps

Patients were a little skeptical when it came to performing teach-back with AI (even though effective).

A large proportion of patients include non-tech-savvy people and hence catering at-home teach-back with VoiceAI could be an issue.

The end.

The end.

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