by Bruce Brown | October 13, 2022 | Health
This year the American Heart Association (AHA) added sleep to its list of behaviors and factors that can lessen a person’s risk of cardiovascular disease. We’ve covered a range of digital health technologies that track sleep and help improve sleep such as...
by Bruce Brown | March 8, 2022 | Medical
Alexa made it to the big leagues. When we first wrote about Amazon’s smart voice assistant Alexa’s role in digital health the topics included applications such as on-demand news and weather reports for visually impaired people, explaining medications, and...
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by Bruce Brown | December 7, 2021 | Health
Last September Amazon announced Alexa Together, an elder care subscription service. On December 7, Amazon launched Alexa Together with a free, limited-time six-month trial. The same day, Vayyar Imaging announced its launch of Vayyar Care, the company’s touchless...
by Bruce Brown | November 4, 2021 | Health
Apple introduced Siri, the digital voice assistant, with the Apple iPhone 4s in 2011. Amazon introduced Alexa in 2013 with the Echo smart speaker. Google launched Google Assistant in 2016. While Siri may be available in more indiviidual devices overall because...
by Bruce Brown | January 28, 2021 | Health
Digital voice assistants such as Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri send us reminders, answer questions, and provide music and entertainment at our spoken command. We’ve written about several medical and health-related Alexa Skills such as...
