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Constant Companion Partners with Canary Speech to Help Diagnose Behavioral Health TrendsSARASOTA, Fla. and PROVO, Utah, April 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Constant Companion and Canary Speech have formed a new strategic partnership to study how voice technology can be used to identify human conditions in specific populations. These pioneering companies have the shared goal of using this cutting-edge technology to provide better patient care and outcomes in older adults. Constant Companion will be utilizing its patented, voice-operated, AI-powered platform used by older adults and their caregivers to facilitate better communication and monitoring. Canary Speech will analyze the data with its patented speech digital biomarker technology, used to diagnose behavioral conditions and other diseases. Ultimately the study, which will be conducted under informed consent using de-identified data, will enhance the information available to clinical teams about their patients and increase quality of care. The mission of Constant Companion is to make people's lives better. To do that, they use empathy, data, and voice technology to create experiences that keep clients more engaged, connected, and protected, 24/7. They integrate their HIPAA-compliant, voice-operated, AI-powered platform into popular smart speakers facilitating better communication and monitoring for older adults, caregivers, and families. Canary Speech is transforming the use of speech analysis technology for the benefit of diagnosing and treating behavioral health conditions and diseases. Canary's HIPAA-compliant technology offers a new approach to capturing and measuring critical data, enabling the replacement of today's subjective behavioral health measurements with a standard approach to objectively measure an array of vocal data points. Canary Speech has commercialized a practical approach for assessments, screening, and diagnosis—and digitally communicates the results to a clinicalteam. The partnership will help enable both companies to put metrics around human conditions and define what patterns reveal certain diseases. Canary Speech will analyze both the words of a patient and the emotions with which they speak, to capture critical mental and behavioral health data that can help identify depression, anxiety, or stress. The company has identified more than 2,500 biomarkers in speech that are consistent for a disease across a range of individuals. "Today marks an important milestone for AI-powered voice technology in the future of healthcare innovation," said Mark Gray, founder and CEO of Constant Companion. "Healthcare requires human-centered, value-based solutions built on trust, confidence, and connection. The partnership between Canary Speech and Constant Companion helps deliver that at scale." "This is truly a groundbreaking partnership that will allow us to analyze data that will help advance the care of our aging population," said Henry O'Connell, founder and CEO of Canary Speech. "Our ultimate goal is to study these biomarkers and increase the quality of care clinical teams provide to patients." The study will follow strict HIPAA guidelines and will only be conducted under informed consent from patients. Throughout the study, the captured data will be de-identified so that patients may remain anonymous. However, the two teams will still be able to determine the impact Constant Companion and their voice technologies are having on older adults. ABOUT CONSTANT COMPANION ABOUT CANARY SPEECH MEDIA CONTACT: View original content to download multimedia:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/constant-companion-partners-with-canary-speech-to-help-diagnose-behavioral-health-trends-301274563.html SOURCE Constant Companion |