Boston Children's Hospital Launches New App for Amazon Alexa, Dubbed as KidsMD
Getting health and medical advices for children can now be a lot easier and more accessible. According to a report by Healthcare IT News, Boston Children's Hospital has recently launched a new app for any of the voice-powered devices that features the Amazon Alexa. The app is dubbed as KidsMD and as detailed in Xconomy, the new software can help parents get simple health advice about their children's condition.
For instance, if the child is suffering from a fever, the parent can get an answer through the KidsMD with any question that they have like medication dosing or nursing interventions. It can also help parents decide on whether symptoms like cough, headache, vomiting, diarrhea and shortness of breath require the service of a doctor.
Everything is provided through the convenience of voice and the new app is powered by info prepared by doctors. As stated by Chief Innovation Officer John Brownstein, the KidsMD is first in the plan to bring Boston Children's medical knowledge to the people.
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"We're trying to extend the know-how of the hospital beyond the walls of the hospital, through digital, and this is one of a few steps we've made in that space," stated Brownstein. "How do you take our know-how and content and make it available more broadly? We're very mission-based around that," he added.
News Medical noted that the KidsMD Alexa skill was created by the Innovation & Digital Health Accelerator (IDHA) team at Boston Children's Hospital. It is available for devices featuring Alexa such as the Amazon Echo, Amazon Tap, Amazon Fire TV and Echo Dot. To get the KidsMD skill, users will need to activate the skill within the Alexa app by saying something like, "Alexa, ask KidsMD about diarrhea" or "Alexa, ask KidsMD about medicine dosage."
The health feature proves to be very useful for parents dealing with a sick child but don't have the time do own research at Google. The Alexa-powered device and the new software does it all for them.
