Alexa

Craig Anderson, director of innovation at the Florida-based health system, discusses what the health system has learned from implementing the voice assistant.

Amazon said the Alexa Smart Properties tools save time and allow healthcare providers and other caregivers to focus on higher level tasks.

Users can find out where vaccination sites are and get connected. 

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The tech giant's collaboration with the NHS was first announced last year. 

In early 2016, Boston Children’s Hospital was among the first healthcare organizations to leverage Amazon Alexa with KidsMD, a skill that helps parents understand their child’s symptoms, seek basic medication dosing guidance, or decide whether an in-person visit is necessary.

Voice assistants are finding their way into a growing number of consumer homes, leading an ever-increasing number of healthcare companies to investigate how these connected technologies can be used to improve patients' health and deliver pertinent information directly to the individual.

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