There were five finalists presenting at the Alexa Diabetes Challenge enlisting Amazon’s voice-activated, machine learning-enabled robot in New York City this week at Merck’s event. But one application that resonated strongly with attendees involves the potential to improve the mood of diabetes patients, many of whom struggle with depression that comes with coping with being diagnosed with a chronic condition associated with potentially life-threatening complications.
Read MoreAmazon's voice technology Alexa has a lot of opportunity to be used in health care, whether it's for remote monitoring of sick patients or in helping doctors take notes during patient visits. But there's one big problem. Alexa is not yet HIPAA-compliant, meaning it doesn't meet the federal rules that protect patient privacy when it comes to their personal health data.
Read MoreBasic health information and advice provided by the Mayo Clinic is now available on Amazon Alexa-enabled devices. Owners who have downloaded the Mayo Clinic First Aid skill (Amazon’s version of apps) need only voice their concerns to receive answers to dozens of everyday health issues or other self-care instructions.
Read MoreBasic health information and advice provided by the Mayo Clinic is now available on Amazon Alexa-enabled devices. Owners who have downloaded the Mayo Clinic First Aid skill (Amazon’s version of apps) need only voice their concerns to receive answers to dozens of everyday health issues or other self-care instructions.
Read MoreCo-hosts Dr. Matt Cybulsky (Principal, Ionia) and Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) interview Ilana Shalowitz, Senior VUI Designer for Emmi. The interview spans how Emmi uses conversation design to spur better decisions in patients outside of the hospital, to Shalowitz's own long, winding road to reach her current voice design role.
Read MoreFrom fitness trackers to online doctor’s visits, health and technology make for a powerful combination. But managing all that health information, or even keeping up with the latest recommendations, can be overwhelming. If only we all had a personal health assistant to keep us feeling our best.
Read MoreSince Amazon launched its Alexa skill store in 2015, developers have created over 10,000 skills that enable users to interact with their Alexa-enabled devices. These skills allow owners of the Amazon Echo, Echo Dot and other connected devices to utilize natural language to interact with the platform in a variety of ways ranging from gaming and shopping to gathering news, weather, travel, health and fitness information.
Read MoreCo-hosts Dr. Matt Cybulsky (Principal, Ionia) and Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) interview Cathy Pearl, VP of User Experience at Sensely, and discuss her background, Sensely's approach to improving healthcare, and psychology behind how voice technology can help achieve better health care outcomes.
Read MoreAccording to a recent FiercePharma article, Merck, Luminary Labs, and Amazon Web Services have teamed up to treat type 2 diabetes. Merck is hosting a contest challenging contestants to use Alexa, Amazon’s voice-enabled system, and the Amazon Lex smart platform to help treat the chronic disease.
Read MorePretty soon, nearly every major platform and device vendor will have an entrant in the market, signaling a new phase in its development. But this market isn’t quite like other markets that have gone before.
Read MoreCo-hosts Dr. Matt Cybulsky (Principal, Ionia) and Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) interview Dr. Saji Salam, formerly of Accenture, who is the entrepreneur behind YourMedInfo, a new medical adherence platform involving Amazon's Alexa and other voice technologies.
Read MoreAs virtual private assistants like Amazon’s Alexa become smarter, more popular and more useful, why not give it them tools to recognize emotions? That seems to be the thinking behind Israel-based Beyond Verbal, which makes voice recognition software to analyze human emotion and health indicators, releasing a cloud-based API engine to integrate with virtual private assistants (VPAs).
Read MoreWhy? When done well, voice wins over any other input method. Typing is the primary mechanism we use to interface with machines today. Yet most English speakers type only about 40 words per minute (wpm).
Read MoreCo-hosts Dr. Matt Cybulsky (Principal, Ionia) and Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) interview Dr. Joe Marks, the Executive Director of the Center for Machine Learning and Health at Carnegie Mellon. The interview spans voice technology in health care, touches on the Alexa Fund's recent presence on Carnegie Mellon's campus, discusses the Echo Show and Echo Look and their potential health care applications, and concludes with Dr. Marks revealing his favorite U2 track.
Read MoreHospital IT professionals are increasingly tinkering with voice technology apps like Amazon Alexa to deliver routine medical information and help ease clinicians' safety concerns in the operating room, according to a CNBC report. Experts suggest there is a plethora of opportunities for voice technology. For example, physicians could use Alexa and similar apps to transcribe notes and document patient interactions, allowing them to spend more quality time with patients instead of with EHRs.
Read More"There are some massive voice applications that will be built for health enterprises," John Brownstein, chief innovation officer at Boston Children's Hospital, told CNBC.
Read MoreAmazon Echo devices are fun and useful applications for consumers in the home. But in the hospital, such voice recognition technology has the potential to save lives. Developers at top hospitals and medical clinics across the country are tinkering with Amazon Alexa and other voice technologies for a variety of applications.
Read MoreWhen Lois Seed wakes up in the morning, one of the first things she says is “Alexa, what is the weather?” Seed, who is 89 and has low vision because of macular degeneration, finds it convenient to get weather information by speaking to the Alexa voice-activated assistant on her Amazon Echo. She also asks her Echo to tell her the time and to play classical music from her former hometown radio station.
Read MoreInterview by co-host Bradley Metrock of fellow co-host Dr. Matt Cybulsky, discussing Dr. Cybulsky's recent pitch to The Alexa Fund, along with recent voice-first developments.
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