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...
by Bruce Brown | November 13, 2019 | Health
Health applications may not have a giant share of the 100,000+ Amazon Alexa smart speaker Skills, but we’ve found an interesting assortment of voice-enabled health and medical tools that take advantage of the open Alexa Toolkit. Alexa helps ambulance attendance...
by Bruce Brown | July 26, 2019 | Enabling Tech
Wearable tech with sensors that monitor and report biometric data can help assess your current health, but devices with algorithms that detect life-threatening conditions could potentially save your life. The iBeat smartwatch app monitors heart activity to alert to...
by Bruce Brown | October 23, 2018 | General News, Health
The CDC reported that in 2015 there were approximately 45 million adults aged 65 or older in the U.S.: about 14% of the population. That number is expected to grow to 80 million — or 20% of the population — by 2050. We’ve written about a variety of...
by Bruce Brown | December 15, 2017 | General News, Medical
Connected healthcare just edged onto a new tech platform: the first health-related voice assistant apps. Amazon’s Echo family of devices offers a rapidly-growing range of task-specific voice apps for its “Alexa” assistant, which are called...
