Becker's Healthcare May 12, 2021
Jackie Drees

Amazon Alexa has become a staple in many homes across the U.S., with the digital assistant even gaining traction in healthcare settings and patient care plans.

Here are four hospitals and health systems that have teamed up with the retail company to build Amazon Alexa skills over the past few years.

University Park, Pa.-based Penn State College of Medicine in April 2021 built an Amazon Alexa skill to deliver care interventions to breast cancer patients in their own homes. The skill, dubbed Addressing Metastatic Individuals Everyday, or Nurse AMIE for short, interacts with patients via voice to address symptoms and offer interventions.

Last October, Newark, Del.-based ChristianaCare developed an Alexa skill...

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Topics: AI (Artificial Intelligence), Health System / Hospital, Provider, Technology, Voice Assistant
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