The Amazon Echo home speaker system has taken the world by storm. Thanks to its virtual slave-like qualities, people have become almost obsessed with how easy it is to have a robot at your beck and call.
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DiagnosisAI, a healthcare technology company that focuses on using artificial intelligence to empower patients has unveiled a new voice-based medical reference app named “Alexa, Ask Doctor Dex” (DexMD).
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Amazon Web Services and Merck announced a developer competition on Monday to that plans to harness artificial intelligence for diabetics.
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VR-neurostimulation combo device gets crowdfunded. While there has been plenty of buzz about virtual reality technology in clinical settings, it seems there is consumer demand health-focused VR as well. Kortex, a new wearable from medical device company Fisher Wallace Labs, uses a combination of the neurostimulation and VR to improve sleep quality and stress management.
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For years the concept was championed by the likes of Nuance, whose natural language processing (NLP) technology focused on allowing clinicians to dictate notes and directions into a laptop, tablet or even a smartphone.
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For years the concept was championed by the likes of Nuance, whose natural language processing (NLP) technology focused on allowing clinicians to dictate notes and directions into a laptop, tablet or even a smartphone. But with the emergence of personal digital assistants like Cortana and Alexa, innovators are looking to the home healthcare space and even the patient’s hospital room as the next launchpad for these platforms.
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Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago has selected healthcare communication company MD Interconnect to provide its cloud-based, mobile messaging platform called RapidConnect to the hospital. Developed by doctors, the RapidConnect messaing system works for both smartphones and desktop computers to replace paging systems and their companion devices in hospitals to provide faster, more secure and more coordinated communication for care teams.
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People who turn to WebMD in their quest for health information can now do so without lifting a finger – they can use their voice, through a new integration with Amazon Alexa.
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Instead of turning to Google with a health-related question, Amazon has made it so Alexa can scour WebMD to answer users’ medical queries.
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Amazon’s Alexa already boasts more than 10,000 skills, but has now added medical advice to its repertoire. WebMD announced today that it’s launched its own skill for all Alexa-enabled devices (including the Echo, Echo Dot, and Fire TV), which can answer basic health-related queries.
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Lenovo Health has joined forces with Orbita, a connected home healthcare technology vendor, to unveil a virtual home care system at HIMSS17 based on two recently debuted products: Lenovo Smart Assistant and Orbita Voice.
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Vocal biomarkers have amazing potential in reforming diagnostics through their accuracy, speed and cost-effectiveness in the areas of mental illnesses as well as physical diseases such as Parkinson’s or coronary artery disease.
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