Hospital teams up with 'Sesame Street': 6 things to know

Hospital teams up with 'Sesame Street': 6 things to know 
Becker's Health IT; by Giles Bruce; 10/23/24 
A California hospital's work with "Sesame Street" is helping advance digital health. Here are six things to know:

1.  Children's Hospital Los Angeles recently connected Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit that produces "Sesame Street," with Augment Therapy, a digital health startup the hospital helped develop through its KidsX Accelerator program.
2. "Sesame Street" characters such as Elmo and Cookie Monster appear in Augment Therapy's augmented reality physical therapy mobile app. Kids, for instance, mimic Elmo's movements — say, lifting their arms over their heads — or grab virtual cookies with Cookie Monster. Augment Therapy licenses the use of the characters.
3. ... The platform is live at several children's hospitals and in testing at Children's Hospital Los Angeles.
4. ... Physical therapists generally send patients home with a sheet of paper of exercises to do at home. Children's Hospital Los Angeles wanted to help create a digital solution. ...
5. Sesame Workshop is looking to get more involved in healthcare. ...
6. Mr. Kulkarni [at Children's Hospital Los Angeles] and Mr. Ludwig [at Sesame Workshop] met years ago at a KidsX pitch night at a Google office in Los Angeles.