What the HIPAA-compliant Alexa skills mean for the future of voice in healthcare
While the skills can help facilitate smoother patient engagement, there's still work to do when it comes to bringing voice to healthcare.
While the skills can help facilitate smoother patient engagement, there's still work to do when it comes to bringing voice to healthcare.
Less than two months after MedCity speculated whether Amazon would release a HIPAA-compliant Echo device, the tech giant revealed Thursday that select skills for Alexa — the voice-activated personal assistant service powering those devices — are indeed HIPAA-compliant.
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There is a rumor out there that Amazon is about to launch a HIPAA-compliant Echo device, which is expected to drive greater adoption of voice in healthcare. But what does it mean for a smart speaker to become HIPAA compliant and what can voice do today?
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