Ochsner’s O Bar connects patients with more than 200 health apps

A room in the Ochsner Center for Primary Care and Wellness has a fleet of five iPads locked to a bar, each one loaded with all the apps the health system has vetted and approved. The O Bar is staffed by a technology specialist that can help patients find out what’s available and help teach them to download and use the available apps.
“The apps are out there and people are going to get them,” Ochsner’s Chief Clinical Transformation Officer Richard Milani told H&HN Magazine last year. “The smart thing for us to do is get our hands around what we think are pretty good apps and make them more helpful to patients.”  Read More

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