Mayo Clinic January 5, 2023
John Halamka

There’s no shortage of startups with creative ways to use the technology to improve patient care and make clinicians’ lives less burdensome, and that includes digital assistants.

By John Halamka, M.D., president, Mayo Clinic Platform, and Paul Cerrato, senior research analyst and communications specialist, Mayo Clinic Platform.

Conversational technology has captured the public’s attention, and is slowly making its way into clinicians’ workspaces, as well. By one estimate, Alexa has been installed on 100 million devices as of 2020; Siri is used by about half a billion people. In total, roughly 63% of US adults use some sort of voice-operated digital assistant. Although reliable statistics on the number of clinicians who use such assistants are difficult to find, our...

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