Healthcare IT Today June 17, 2021
Providing reminders around medication, transcribing patient conversations, controlling surgical devices: these are some of the new ways voice interactions are entering medicine. People who have gotten used to talking to their cell phones–or through agents such as Alexa, to their TVs and microwave stoves and cars–will expect simple voice interactions in their medical encounters.
I talked to Bruce Ryan, director of engineering for HARMAN Embedded Audio, to find out how audio capabilities are evolving and what his company is doing to provide them in health care.
The parent company HARMAN, which operated independently from 1953 to 2017 and is now a part of Samsung, is a premier company for audio around the world. The international reach has helped them be...