The Rundown: Blood pressure monitoring esp for elderly and AI voice agents.


🩺 AI voice agents boost blood pressure monitoring
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The Rundown: A new study from Emory University tested utilizing AI voice agents to assist senior citizens in taking and reporting their blood pressure over the phone, helping both raise satisfaction and reduce costs by nearly 90%.
The details:
Conversational AI agents reached 85% of the 2,000 patients by phone, with 60% successfully taking blood pressure readings in English or Spanish. Agents automatically escalated cases to nurses when readings exceeded thresholds or patients reported symptoms like chest pain or dizziness. The AI obtained readings from 1,939 patients with outdated records, boosting quality scores from 1 to 4 stars while cutting costs by 88.7% vs. human nurses.The average satisfaction score was above 9/10, despite researchers expecting resistance to automated healthcare interactions from older demographics.
Why it matters: This study hits at the center of a few trends: AI’s coming role in healthcare (and eldercare in particular), and the continued growth of voice agents in customer service. In the future, adding an AI vision tool like Gemini Live to walk seniors through processes will bring remote patient care to a new high-tech level.
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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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