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8 August 2019

Tech companies renew pledge to support interoperability in health

The likes of Google, Amazon and IBM have all said that “too often” patient data is “inconsistently formatted, incomplete, unavailable,
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Amazon Alexa
30 July 2019

Davey Winder: Hey Alexa, what’s the problem with your health advice NHS collaboration?

Our cybersecurity columnist Davey Winder delves beyond the media headlines regarding data privacy after the NHS announced a partnership with
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Amazon Alexa
11 April 2019

Amazon Alexa now compliant with US healthcare data privacy rules

As part of the news, Amazon also announced number of partnerships which include enabling patients to reorder prescriptions and get
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6 December 2018

Amazon’s new machine learning tool to decode unstructured medical data

Amazon Comprehend Medical is capable of reading clinical notes, prescriptions and audio transcripts and decoding the information contained within it.
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Digital Health Cybersecurity Round-Up
12 October 2018

Cyber security news round up

Our latest round-up from the cyber security world includes BlackBerry's new quantum-resistant cryptography tools and an educational cyber security game.
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Google Deepmind
17 August 2018

Tech giants make interoperability pledge for US health data

Apple, Amazon, IBM, Microsoft and Salesforce will work together to drive common standards for exchanging health information in the US.
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29 June 2018

Amazon breaks into healthcare market with PillPack acquisition

Sources have claimed the deal is worth around £760 million ($1 billion) with both parties expecting the deal to go
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Ali Parsa Babylon
7 June 2018

Babylon founder: ‘GP at Hand meets the needs of the NHS’

Ali Parsa sat down with Digital Health News at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) summit in London to talk about
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Amazon Alexa
21 May 2018

Amazon develops ‘health and wellness team within Alexa division’

Internal documents, obtained by CNBC, reveal that a group of around ‘a dozen people’ are asked with making Alexa ‘more
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30 March 2018

Why Netflix and Amazon might offer a glimpse at our future healthcare ecosystems

Apple's play into the healthcare ecosystem could open up new models of healthcare delivery, the resemblance of which may not
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