The Casa Grande Safeway recently joined ten other Akos Med Clinic AI-enabled Safeway locations in Arizona. These locations include Ahwatukee, Chandler, Gilbert, Glendale, Laveen, Phoenix, Scottsdale (2), and Tempe. Outside Arizona, Akos has the 12th in Boise, Idaho. Further expansion plans are in the works to bring more stores to other parts of Arizona, including Tucson next month, and to other states.
So what is this AI powered Medical Clinic?
First and foremost, patients experience a completely automated health encounter using Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality. Patients receive a tablet to engage with the Artificial Intelligence by an onsite assistant. Then the AI app guides them through registration, insurance validation, payment, and information collection regarding their chief complaint, which is required for diagnosis.
Once the interaction with the application by the patient is done, he or she is guided to an exam room where they sit in front of a computer screen and a rack of simple-to-use, FDA-approved medical devices. There augmented Reality guides the patient on how to use the devices to collect objective measurements such as weight, temperature, blood pressure, and blood oxygen content, as well as ear, nose and throat images, and chest, lung and abdomen sounds.
An Akos medical provider (physician or nurse practitioner) receives the information electronically and a video consultation begins. The physician then verify the diagnosis, and confirm or modify the treatment plan formulated by the system. The provider may also order lab tests that are collected by the medical assistant/phlebotomist. On average, the clinic visit will take about 20 minutes.
At the end of consultation, the required follow-up tests and/or prescriptions are ordered by the provider and sent electronically to the appropriate healthcare partners. The AI also automatically charts the visit into the patient’s electronic health record, and bills the patient’s insurance.
After the patient finishes their visit, the medical assistant/phlebotomist cleans and sanitizes the instruments, and is ready for the next visitor.
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So what is this AI powered Medical Clinic?
First and foremost, patients experience a completely automated health encounter using Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality. Patients receive a tablet to engage with the Artificial Intelligence by an onsite assistant. Then the AI app guides them through registration, insurance validation, payment, and information collection regarding their chief complaint, which is required for diagnosis.
Once the interaction with the application by the patient is done, he or she is guided to an exam room where they sit in front of a computer screen and a rack of simple-to-use, FDA-approved medical devices. There augmented Reality guides the patient on how to use the devices to collect objective measurements such as weight, temperature, blood pressure, and blood oxygen content, as well as ear, nose and throat images, and chest, lung and abdomen sounds.
An Akos medical provider (physician or nurse practitioner) receives the information electronically and a video consultation begins. The physician then verify the diagnosis, and confirm or modify the treatment plan formulated by the system. The provider may also order lab tests that are collected by the medical assistant/phlebotomist. On average, the clinic visit will take about 20 minutes.
At the end of consultation, the required follow-up tests and/or prescriptions are ordered by the provider and sent electronically to the appropriate healthcare partners. The AI also automatically charts the visit into the patient’s electronic health record, and bills the patient’s insurance.
After the patient finishes their visit, the medical assistant/phlebotomist cleans and sanitizes the instruments, and is ready for the next visitor.
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