MobiHealth News November 18, 2021
Laura Lovett

The new skill will let patients verbally communicate with caregivers through Amazon Echo.

Medical communication company Vocera is teaming up with Amazon to build a new skill on Alexa aimed at making patients’ hospital experience more connected.

The new skill will be focused on keeping patients and caregivers connected to their clinical team. Patients will also be able to use the combined technology to ask questions about their hospital stay. Tapping into an Amazon Echo in their room, patients will be able to just speak requests for a care team member.

On the other end, care team members will get the request for care on either their Vocera Badge, Smartbade or Vina app. Employing Vocera Engage software, the...

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