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  • Read more: Exploring Elder Care Robotics: Voice Assistants and Home Hubs

    Exploring Elder Care Robotics: Voice Assistants and Home Hubs

    By Adriana Krasniansky This article is part of a four-part series that researches how robotics are being developed for aging care and investigates their ethical implications. In our first article, we explored emotional companion robots, which soothe and comfort patients experiencing loneliness, depression, or diseases such as Alzheimer’s. Today, we look at voice assistants and…

    a home hub featuring icons of all the tasks it can assist with in a thinking cloud
  • Read more: Diving Deeper into Amazon Alexa’s HIPAA Compliance

    Diving Deeper into Amazon Alexa’s HIPAA Compliance

    By Adriana Krasniansky Earlier this year, consumer technology company Amazon made waves in health care when it announced that its Alexa Skills Kit, a suite of tools for building voice programs, would be HIPAA compliant. Using the Alexa Skills Kit, companies could build voice experiences for Amazon Echo devices that communicate personal health information with…

    Photograph from above of a health care provider taking a patient's blood pressure.