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AI Voice Assistants Insufficient for Layperson CPR Instructions

September 5, 2023 - Researchers from Mass General Brigham, New York’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Boston Children’s Hospital demonstrated that artificial intelligence (AI) voice assistants frequently provided low-quality layperson cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) instructions in a recent study published in JAMA Network Open. Layperson CPR...

AI Chatbots for Dementia Patients Show Promise, But Need Work

June 17, 2021 by Jill McKeon

AI chatbots have the potential to help dementia patients and assist caregivers, but the technology is still far from being truly useful and reliable, according to a recent study published in the...

Google’s Artificial Intelligence Voice Assistant Bests Siri, Alexa

May 24, 2021 by Jill McKeon

A new study from Klick Applied Sciences suggests that people who use artificial intelligence-driven voice assistants for medication information will find the best results from Google Assistant....

USC, Amazon Launch Center for Secure Machine Learning Development

February 01, 2021 by Jessica Kent

The University of Southern California and Amazon have established the Center for Secure and Trusted Machine Learning, a joint research effort to develop new approaches to machine learning privacy and...

Amazon Pledges $20M to Support COVID-19 Diagnostics, Research

March 20, 2020 by Jessica Kent

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched the AWS Diagnostic Development Initiative, a program with an initial investment of $20 million that will accelerate COVID-19 research and testing. For more...

Amazon Introduces Machine Learning Medical Transcription Service

December 03, 2019 by Jessica Kent

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a new machine learning service called Amazon Transcribe Medical, which will automatically convert physician consultations and dictated notes from speech to...

UX, AI, and Amazon: Top 5 Healthcare Predictions for 2019

December 06, 2018 by Jennifer Bresnick

2018 was nothing if not eventful for the healthcare industry, and 2019 is already shaping up to be more of the same. Between the federal urgency around enabling patient access to health data,...

Amazon Takes on Unstructured EHR Data with Machine Learning, NLP

November 28, 2018 by Jennifer Bresnick

Amazon is taking another big step into the healthcare industry by announcing a new machine learning service that can extract meaningful information from unstructured EHR data and free-text clinical...

Alexa, Siri NLP Skills Not Ready for Reliable Medical Conversations

September 06, 2018 by Jennifer Bresnick

Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, and other AI-driven virtual assistants may be useful tools for ordering rideshares and controlling smart homes, but these conversational computing systems are not quite...

Amazon, Google, IBM Pledge Health Data Standards, Interoperability

August 13, 2018 by Jennifer Bresnick

Half a dozen of the biggest names in technology – Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, IBM, and Oracle – have joined together to pledge speedy progress towards true health data...

Top 10 Disruptive Companies to Watch in the Healthcare Space

July 05, 2018 by Jennifer Bresnick

2018 has been a busy year for corporate news as companies with long experience in the healthcare industry acquire competitors, release new offerings, and butt up against non-traditional newcomers...

Amazon Scoops Up PillPack in Possible Population Health Play

June 28, 2018 by Jennifer Bresnick

Rumors of Amazon’s entry into the prescription drug distribution market have not been greatly exaggerated. The e-commerce giant today announced the acquisition of PillPack, a company that...

Atul Gawande to Lead Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan Healthcare Company

June 20, 2018 by Jennifer Bresnick

Brigham and Women’s surgeon Dr. Atul Gawande will be leading Amazon’s most significant leap into the healthcare industry yet by becoming CEO of the partnership between the e-commerce giant,...

Amazon is Exploring the Role of Alexa in Chronic Disease Care

May 11, 2018 by Jennifer Bresnick

In a not-at-all surprising move from Amazon, an internal team is exploring how Alexa can help consumers manage chronic diseases and maintain wellness, according to a report from CNBC. An...

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