Amazon Alexa offering NHS health advice

Amazon Alexa offering NHS health advice People will be able to get expert health advice using Amazon Alexa devices, under a partnership with the NHS, the government has announced.

From this week, the voice-assisted technology is automatically searching the NHS Choices website when UK users ask for health-related advice.

The Department of Health in England said it could reduce demand on the NHS.

Privacy campaigners have raised data protection concerns but Amazon say all information will be kept confidential. BBC News

See also:

• NHS teams up with Amazon to bring Alexa to patients The Guardian
• Ask Alexa to diagnose your health problems as NHS announces 'world-first' partnership with Amazon  The Telegraph
• Ask Alexa instead of your GP: Patients will be told to use Amazon speaker hooked up to NHS website Mail Online