Boston hospital tries medical applications of Amazon's voice recognition software

| | Health Exec | Precision Medicine

Boston Children’s Hospital is testing a variety of new applications based around Amazon’s Alexa voice recognition software, reported the Boston Globe.

The hospital created three simulation rooms—an operating room, an intensive care unit and a child’s bedroom—to show off different ways voice commands could help physicians, or in some cases, frustrate them. 

In the operating room, physicians tried using Alexa to automatically take and log photos during a simulated colonoscopy, rather than documenting them manually afterward. It didn’t work precisely as planned during a demonstration. The hospital’s clinical director of innovation, Michael Docktor, MD, had to repeat the same command for Alexa to stop recording.

“Stop, will ya?” Docktor said. “This is obviously version 0.0.1.”

To read more about how the software could be used to help nurses draw blood, or assist parents at home when their child has a fever, click on the link below: 

'Alexa, pull those lab results': A hospital tries out virtual assistants

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