{"id":13681,"date":"2019-07-29T08:36:30","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T12:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13681"},"modified":"2019-07-29T08:36:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T12:36:30","slug":"doctor-alexa-will-see-you-now-is-amazon-primed-to-come-to-your-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13681","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Alexa Will See You Now: Is Amazon Primed To Come To Your Rescue?"},"content":{"rendered":"

(By Janet Rae-Dupree for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n

Now that it\u2019s upending the way you play music, cook, shop, hear the news and check the weather, the friendly voice emanating from your Amazon Alexa-enabled smart speaker is poised to wriggle its way into all things health care.<\/p>\n

Amazon has big ambitions for its devices. It thinks Alexa, the virtual assistant inside them, could help doctors diagnose mental illness, autism, concussions and Parkinson\u2019s disease. It even hopes Alexa will detect when you\u2019re having a heart attack.\u00a0 Continue reading article here…<\/a><\/p>\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n

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