{"id":13339,"date":"2019-06-04T07:26:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T11:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13339"},"modified":"2019-06-04T07:26:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T11:26:13","slug":"analysis-why-alexas-bedside-manner-is-bad-for-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13339","title":{"rendered":"Analysis: Why Alexa\u2019s Bedside Manner Is Bad For Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Elisabeth Rosenthal for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Amazon has opened a new health care frontier: Now Alexa can be used to transmit patient data. Using this new feature \u2014 which Amazon labeled as a \u201cskill\u201d \u2014 a company named Livongo will allow diabetes patients \u2014 which it calls \u201cmembers\u201d \u2014 to use the device to \u201cquery their last blood sugar reading, blood sugar measurement trends, and receive insights and Health Nudges that are personalized to them.\u201d\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/analysis-why-alexas-bedside-manner-is-bad-for-health-care\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=73324798&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_6WAeMbzQ8TCgj0TYll4JJVpJljdNvJ4NmX79LxPRtTSKFkmIm_oAkA1M362HVSay1bzHc1kcz0n7BZNYGDtKWJBgeVg&amp;_hsmi=73324798\">article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Elisabeth Rosenthal for Kaiser Health News) Amazon has opened a new health care frontier: Now Alexa can be used<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-medical-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13340,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13339\/revisions\/13340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}