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Mar 10, 20214 min read

New smart speaker monitors both regular and irregular heartbeats

Smart speakers, such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, have proven adept at monitoring certain health care issues at home. For example,...

Nov 1, 20204 min read

Apple to buy Oura after Amazon launches Halo and Google buys Fitbit?

Is Apple poised to buy Oura, maker of the Oura Ring? Will an acquisition like Oura enable Apple to compete with Amazon and Google for the...

Jun 27, 20205 min read

Amazon healthcare initiatives wake up an industry slow to change

The healthcare industry is rife with runaway costs and unrivaled bureaucracy, with established companies either unwilling or unable to...

Oct 27, 20194 min read

Amazon’s second Healthcare acquisition is emblematic of the kinds of Digital solutions becoming Star

Near-record funding and a string of public offerings have led to substantial buzz for the digital-health arena. Still, many of the areas...

Sep 25, 201912 min read

Healthcare has never experienced anything like Amazon’s combination of logistics, voice AI expertise

Ever since the announcement last year that three of America’s biggest companies — Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase — had...

Aug 29, 20198 min read

Does Amazon have answers for the future of the NHS?

The technology behemoth is preparing a move into the healthcare market, but critics fear profit will come before patients and privacy....

Jul 18, 20195 min read

5 ways Amazon can disrupt Healthcare and Pharma in 2019

Goldman Sachs recently produced a 30-page report based on the the work of five research analysts focused on Amazon's likely ambitions to...

Jul 10, 20192 min read

NHS announces 'world-first' partnership with Amazon enabling patients to ask Alexa to help d

The NHS is collaborating with Amazon to provide reliable health information from the NHS website through voice-assisted technology The...

Jun 8, 20194 min read

Why Alexa’s bedside manner is bad for health care

Amazon has opened a new health care frontier: Now Alexa can be used to transmit patient data. Using this new feature — which Amazon...

Jun 5, 20192 min read

Thoughts on Amazon's journey into Healthcare

1) JPMorgan/Amazon/Berkshire deal - gives Amazon patient/user experience, access to big data sets and the opportunity to test and learn...

May 23, 20192 min read

Amazon is developing a new wearable device powered by Alexa to recognise human emotions

Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) has yet to officially enter the wearables market, which is expected to see global unit volumes approach 200...

May 9, 20195 min read

Dr. Alexa Will See You Now: Can We Trust Digital Assistants With Our Health Data?

It’s hard to imagine a field where data is more valuable than in healthcare. Monitoring and interpreting crucial health indices can make...

Apr 14, 20194 min read

Amazon’s Alexa can now handle Health and Patient information, what does this mean for privacy?

Last week, Amazon announced that Alexa-enabled devices are now able to handle patient information. It’s an exciting update that could...

Jan 8, 20196 min read

Amazon's next big thing: Prime, but for healthcare?

Amazon has been making a series of moves into the healthcare space. Put them together and you have the outline of a plan for a radical...

Mar 14, 20182 min read

Health services company Cigna launches its "Answers by Cigna" skill for Amazon Alexa

Cigna Cigna (NYSE: CI), a global health service company, today announced it is entering the voice control space with the launch of...