HIMSS February 18, 2020
The SMILE Team, Lisa Militello, The Ohio State University; Emre Sezgin, Yungui Huang and Simon Lin, Nationwide Children’s Hospital; Winners of the HIMSS Battle for Our Babies Initiative

Currently the market for digital assistants is growing, as are voice technology services and products for use in everyday life.

One digital assistant has more than 50,000 skills available worldwide covering a broad array of topics (e.g., money management and lifestyle tips). These skills can be developed by the public, increasing the capabilities of digital assistants making everyday tasks faster and easier for users.

The past decade has provided a rich foundation and launchpad for mobile and ever-present computing in health. For example, mobile health, or mHealth, has the potential to turn mobile devices into personal labs that continuously assess a person’s physiology, behavior, social context and environmental exposure.

Mobile-based applications have been used to provide personal health information and...

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Topics: Digital Health, Patient / Consumer, Physician, Provider, Technology, Voice Assistant
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