Amazon: HIPAA-Compliant Alexa Skills ‘Just the First Step’ in Disrupting Health Care

The new skills kit allows select patients and health care organizations to securely transmit sensitive medical information — often from the comfort of one’s own home. While the implications of the skills have the home-based care industry buzzing, it’s only the beginning of what voice technology can do for the sector, experts say.

“We’re still in the infancy of this technology — where there are nuances in how you say things and there’s sort of non-intuitive grammar in terms of how you have to articulate your request to Alexa,” Greg...