{"id":136208,"date":"2022-03-01T04:22:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T12:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/amazons-voice-assistant-alexa-to-start-seeking-doctor-help"},"modified":"2022-03-01T04:22:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T12:22:36","slug":"amazons-voice-assistant-alexa-to-start-seeking-doctor-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/amazons-voice-assistant-alexa-to-start-seeking-doctor-help","title":{"rendered":"Amazon\u2019s voice assistant Alexa to start seeking doctor help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amazons-voice-assistant-alexa-to-start-seeking-doctor-help2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If there is no doctor in the house, Amazon\u2019s Alexa will soon be able to summon one.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon and telemedicine provider Teladoc Health are starting a voice-activated virtual care program that lets customers get medical help without picking up their phones.<\/p>\n<p>The service, for health issues that aren\u2019t emergencies, will be available around the clock on Amazon\u2019s Echo devices. Customers can tell the voice assistant Alexa that they want to talk to a doctor, and that will prompt a call back on the device from a Teladoc physician.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there is no doctor in the house, Amazon\u2019s Alexa will soon be able to summon one. Amazon and telemedicine provider Teladoc Health are starting a voice-activated virtual care program that lets customers get medical help without picking up their phones. The service, for health issues that aren\u2019t emergencies, will be available around the clock [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}