Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Jul 2019
Amazon’s Alexa to offer NHS health care advice
10 July 2019 - The UK Government has announced that the NHS has plans to collaborate with Amazon to provide “reliable health information from the NHS website through voice-assisted technology.”
The NHS are embracing the use of technology as part of the Long Term Plan, and hopping on the voice search trend as by 2020, half of all searches are expected to be made through voice-assisted technology.
A release on Gov UK states that the technology will help patients, especially the elderly, blind and those who cannot access the internet through traditional means, to get professional, NHS-verified health information in seconds, through simple voice commands.
