How Generative AI Helps Prevvy Reduce Health Disparities

Generative AI and Digital Patient journeys is an opportunity 

to advance Health Equity


Health barriers driven by social determinants of health (SDOH) have worsened chronic disease management for patients dealing with chronic conditions, such as hypertension, diabetes, obesity, COPD, etc. A  Mayo Clinic study detected 2 health barriers implies 50% probability of patient with uncontrolled hypertension.


At Prevvy, we believe that everyone deserves to receive the healthcare they need, regardless of their ethnicity, language, or origin. That's why we are integrating generative AI into our digital therapy and recommendation systems.



José María Millán

Oct 19, 2023


How Generative AI Helps Prevvy Reduce Health Disparities


At Prevvy, we believe that everyone deserves to receive the healthcare they need, regardless of their ethnicity, language, or origin. That's why we are integrating generative AI into our digital therapy and recommendation systems. 

Prevvy is using Generative AI to personalize reminders and recommendations for patients, based on their individual needs, including language, country of origin, ethnicity, city, climate, education, and tone of formality. This helps to address health disparities by making care more relevant and accessible to all patients.

For example, a medication reminder could be personalized to include a reference to the patient's traditional cuisine, or an exercise recommendation could be personalized to include a suggestion to visit a local park or beach that is popular in the patient's community, or it could be translated into Spanish for a patient who doesn't speak English.

How it works

Generative AI allows us to adapt Prevvy's reminders and recommendations to individual patient needs. For example, a reminder to take a medication could be personalized to include a reference to Cuban cuisine for a Cuban patient in Miami, or it could be translated into Spanish for a patient who doesn't speak English.


Evolution toward digitally-enable care model

The digitization of patient journeys culturally and linguistically adapted to the Hispanic population will reduce health disparities and patient experience in the US Hispanic population. 


Better patient engagement and education are needed to improve adherence to chronic disease management, especially for patients with health barriers. 


Digital patient journeys are a critical opportunity to apply language and culturally appropriate health policies that support health equity, health care quality, and efficiency


Patients can improve their chronic care self-management when they know more about their chronic illnesses.

How Prevvy uses generative AI to reduce health disparities

Prevvy uses generative AI in two main components:

How FHIR standards help define guidelines for patient journey and recommendation systems

Prevvy uses the FHIR Care Planning, Fhir Clinical Reasoning and Clinical Quality Language standards to define and distribute guidelines for patient journeys or digital therapies, and to generate personalized recommendations. These standards allow patient clinical data to be shared and reused across different healthcare systems and providers.


Specific examples of how generative AI helps Prevvy reduce health disparities

Here are some specific examples of how generative AI can be used to personalize Prevvy's reminders and recommendations to address health disparities:


Here are some specific examples of how generative AI can help individual patients:

Conclusion

Generative AI is a powerful tool that can be used to personalize Prevvy's reminders and recommendations to meet the individual needs of patients. By adapting the text to the patient's name, city, climate, ethnicity, language, country of origin, diseases, and treatment adherence, Prevvy can help ensure that all patients receive the care they need.


Future work

Prevvy is working to further improve the ability of its systems to personalize reminders and recommendations. In the future, Prevvy plans to:

By continuing to innovate in the use of generative AI and FHIR standards, Prevvy is committed to helping ensure that all patients receive the care they need.


How about your organization? Have you implemented a virtual care program for chronic patients? What has worked? What didn't? 

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