PureTech Health spin-outs Akili and Sonde Health announce new international patents
This week has spurred some major patent announcements from digital health companies Akili Interactive and Sonde Health, which are both affiliated with PureTech Health, a cross disciplinary biopharma company. The two companies announced they have been granted the rights to multiple international digital health patents. Akili revealed they are developing a technology aimed at using neural stimulation to treat cognitive dysfunction and Sonde went public with a patent that uses speech to measure vocal biomarkers for physical or psychological conditions.
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Chatbots May Be Healthcare’s Artificial Intelligence Entry Point
Chatbots and virtual assistants may offer healthcare organizations a low-cost entry point into the burgeoning world of artificial intelligence, indicates a new cross-industry survey conducted by Spiceworks.
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7 Health and Fitness Commands You Didn't Know You Could Use Alexa For
Anyone with an Amazon Echo device is most likely not using it to its full potential. Aside from being a fun companion, Alexa is capable of doing more than you could ever imagine from calling you Ubers and helping you with math to helping you get fit.
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Why voice assistants are gaining traction in healthcare
Voice-enabled personal assistants seem to be headed for ubiquity in the consumer world. Market research firm Gartner predicts consumer demand for voice devices such as Amazon Echo and Google Home will generate $3.5 billion by 2021.
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The Voice of Healthcare - Episode 9
Co-hosts Dr. Matt Cybulsky (Principal, Ionia) and Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) speak with Dr. Teri Fisher, creator of www.AlexaInCanada.ca and physician and clinical assistant professor at the University of British Columbia. The conversation focuses on the genesis of the Alexa in Canada podcast, which is hosted by Dr. Fisher and part of the VoiceFirst.FM network, as well as privacy concerns related to voice tech in healthcare, and even what Teri hopes to see from Amazon's recently-announced new healthcare venture with Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan.
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Clinical trials test how Amazon’s Alexa can fit into healthcare
At least four clinical trials are examining the role that voice assistants like Amazon’s Alexa and Microsoft’s Cortana can play in improving health outcomes for patients, according to a LinkedIn analysis of ClinicalTrials.gov.
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Digital health news briefs for 3/16/2017
Voice assistants are on the rise among European physicians with more than half of those practicing in major European countries either interested in or actively using these technologies, according to survey data collected by DRG Digital | Manhattan Research. According to the company, 56 percent of polled physicians said that they currently use or would like to use voice assistants in their work. Of these, 17 percent said that they already use voice assistant devices, although this portion rose to 24 percent in Spain.
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Cigna launches Amazon Alexa skill to increase health literacy
Insurer Cigna announced Tuesday it is releasing "Answers by Cigna," a skill for Amazon Alexa aimed at using voice control to educate consumers on 150 commonly-asked healthcare questions.
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What Will Health Care Look Like Once Smart Speakers Are Everywhere?
Voice-powered technologies such as Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant, and Cortana, are changing the way people shop, drive cars, and manage their homes. Studies have suggested that, by 2020, 50% of all searches will be conducted by voice and smart speakers are expected to reach 55% of U.S. households by 2022. It is no different for physicians.
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Optra Health launches Alexa-powered AI genomics platform
Optra Health, which produces AI-driven iPhronesis analysis platform for healthcare and life sciences clients, today announced the launch of a new genetics-focused product specially designed for consumers, genetic counselors, and other genomics researchers.
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Hospitals forging patient experience of the future with voice AI technologies
Commonwealth Care Alliance and Penn Medicine are already putting Amazon Alexa to work in early-stage projects that promise to reshape the patient experience.
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The Voice of Healthcare - Episode 8
Co-hosts Dr. Matt Cybulsky (Principal, Ionia) and Bradley Metrock (CEO, Score Publishing) speak with Omri Yoffe, founder of LifeBEAM and inventor of the Vi Personal Trainer. The conversation focuses on the Vi, which is a highly unique application of voice-first technology to the healthcare space, and then shifts to a broader discussion on voice technology's role in healthcare moving forward.
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Special Report: AI voice assistants have officially arrived in healthcare
As 2017 wound down, Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant rose up to the top of Apple’s App Store while Amazon’s Echo Dot was its own bestseller. But some of the millions of those devices sold have already found their way into hospitals like Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Northwell Health in New York, the Commonwealth Care Alliance in Boston, and Libertana Home Health in Los Angeles.
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No Female Keynotes at CES but Alexa's Voice was Heard Above All Others
CES welcomed more than 170,000 attendees this year and yet had no women presenting the top keynotes. A quarter of all other speaking slots were taken by women, so it's not hard to see why this kicked off a social media backlash #CESSoMale.
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19 ways Alexa brings the doctor to you
Want to ask medical questions whenever you think of them? Alexa can oblige. Alexa Skills that give health tips and information abound. But some skills now record health concerns, push first aid advice and find wait times at your local emergency room — potentially more useful to your personal health that just a statistic.
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Having A Heart Attack? This AI Helps Emergency Dispatchers Find Out
When someone goes into cardiac arrest outside of a hospital, time is critical: The chance of survival decreases about 10% with each minute. The first step–recognizing that it’s cardiac arrest, when your heart fully stops–is challenging for emergency dispatchers on the phone, who have to make sense of symptoms relayed by a panicked friend or relative.
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The Smart Audio Report from NPR and Edison Research, Fall-Winter 2017
65%say that they wouldn’t want to go back to life without their Smart Speaker
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Meet Eva, the voice-activated ‘assistant’ for doctors
It takes only a few seconds to click a button and open a window on a computer. But for a busy doctor sifting through patient records, those clicks can add up to extra hours spent at a computer each day completing tedious but necessary tasks.
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6 skills to turn Alexa into your workout partner
But since 92 percent of resolutions fail, the odds of actually sticking to your health goals this year are pretty slim. However, if you happened to be one of the lucky people gifted with an Alexa-enabled device for Christmas (or you bought one for yourself), your chances of success might just be a little higher.
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