Digital health tools can widen the gaps they set out to close. Why GistMD is committing to report completion rates stratified by language, delivery channel and region.

By Dan Rolls, Founder & CEO, GistMD Precision health is rapidly getting better at knowing. Genomics, biomarkers, predictive models, and increasingly sophisticated risk-stratification algorithms can tell us more about an individual patient than ever before. But knowing is not the same as doing. A patient can have a highly precise risk score, a perfectly selected screening recommendation, or an evidence-based treatment plan and still not complete the colonoscopy, take the medic

Category: Colonoscopy Author: Dan Rolls, Founder and CEO, GistMD Published: Aug 8 26 Written for healthcare professionals and administrators. Not medical advice. Sending preparation instructions by text instead of on paper does not, on its own, produce cleaner colonoscopies. A randomized trial of 753 patients found no difference in attendance or preparation quality when nine automated text messages were added to usual care, while a meta-analysis of 18 randomized trials found