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Thursday, November 01, 2018

Alexa Augmenting Cancer Research

Had not heard of Alexa in this space.  Simple idea here.  Risk of giving incorrect answers?

New Technology Is Rapidly Improving Cancer Care, and Alexa Is at the Vanguard  ... The Guardian (United Kingdom)  by Judith Potts

Amazon's cloud-based digital assistant Alexa is one of several new tools being used by the Breast Cancer Care charity in the U.K. to encourage women to check for breast cancer and find the information they need concerning diagnosis, therapy, and life after a breast cancer diagnosis. The voice service will walk users through a breast examination, analyze their answers to questions from Breast Cancer Care, and then advise whether a medical appointment might be necessary. In addition, the Breast Cancer Care App (BECCA) app provides informational flashcards, as well as daily peer-led advice answering questions about the side effects of treatment, healthier lifestyle choices, and making sense of breast cancer. Other innovations include Imperial College London's Smart Sensing for Surgery project, which uses a wireless bio-patch to monitor oxygen saturation in transferred tissue after breast reconstruction, to flag postoperative complications. ....  "

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