App Offers Virtual Coach for Cancer Patients - NBC4 Washington

App Offers Virtual Coach for Cancer Patients - NBC4 Washington

CDC's Talk to Someone Shines in the Spotlight CDC’s Talk to Someone:Triple Negative Breast Cancer, a free online and mobile application (App), was featured in the Working 4 Your Health segment on NBC Washington, a local news broadcast in Washington, DC. Talk to Someone is an interactive conversation with Linda, a virtual coach that provides breast cancer patients with a safe environment to ask questions. In the segment, the Talk to Someone app was highly-regarded as a tool with an emotionally responsive virtual health coach to help people deal with the difficult diagnosis of cancer, and get a better understanding of their treatment plan. The segment includes interviews with Delphyne Taylor, breast cancer survivor and the voice of Linda, and Dr. Glenn Albright, co-founder and director of research from Kognito, who partnered with CDC to develop the tool. Watch the segment here. View Video