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Perspectives from Orbita

Perspectives on how conversational AI redefines the patient journey and powers automation with empathy in healthcare and life sciences.
Jun 19, 2018 Clinical Trial Shows the Benefit of Voice in Disease Management In a recent post, I gave a hypothetical example showing how voice could be an effective tool in a variety of healthcare scenarios a single patient may… Read more
Jun 5, 2018 Errant Alexa Communications Are Rare. The Benefit of Voice in Healthcare is Real Cell phone pocket calls occur every day, with the first “butt dial” likely happening shortly after the very first person thought it was a good idea to… Read more
May 8, 2018 From Prevention to Administration, Examples of Voice Assistant Use in Healthcare In past posts, we’ve talked generally about the role of voice in healthcare. This post will be more specific. It will follow the journey of a patient who,… Read more
Mar 14, 2018 Leveraging Conversational Experiences to Address Aging-in-Place Needs of Older Adults Recently, Aging 2.0, a global network focused on a collaborative, lifestyle-oriented, opportunity-driven approach to aging, published information on eight… Read more
doctor-echo-057357-edited Jan 30, 2018 5 Applications of Voice Assistants in Healthcare Previous blog posts have noted that voice is a natural interface for communicating our thoughts and ideas. Recent innovations have made voice an obvious… Read more
googlehome_hero-1 Jan 17, 2018 Why Voice? Why Now? Making the Case for Voice Say this question to yourself: Why voice? There. In the less than one second it took you to say it, you’ve answered the question. In this blog post, we’ll… Read more
Nov 16, 2017 Will Voice Assistants and Bots replace Websites and Mobile Apps? Natural language refers to the way we, that is humans, communicate with each other. Namely, speech and text. For computers, natural language used to be… Read more
Oct 3, 2017 HIMSS17 - The Latest In Digital Healthcare Technology It’s hard to sum up HIMSS17 – the healthcare IT conference held last month in Orlando – in just one blogpost, but (thanks to the articles linked here),… Read more
Jul 6, 2017 Voice Assistants Working with Mobile Apps Over the last two years we’ve experienced the impact of voice assistants like Amazon Echo and Google Home, which are providing a new channel for users to… Read more
Jun 30, 2017 Is Your Web Content Voice Ready? The Voice Experience Takes Off Voice recognition has been around for a long time – since the early 1950’s, when initial systems could recognize spoken… Read more
Jun 16, 2017 Which Alexa device is right for home healthcare? Since Alexa (Amazon’s voice control system) and Echo (Amazon’s first Alexa-driven device) were brought out late in 2014, Amazon introduced a number of… Read more
May 24, 2017 Echo Show: the power of show and tell Amazon’s recent announcement of Echo Show – a touchscreen device with Alexa voice technology built in – got a generally favorable reception, but in that… Read more
May 16, 2017 New Voice Technology Worth Speaking To If you needed proof that voice technology is hot, look no further than the number of new product offerings launching in the next few months. Read more
Feb 27, 2017 The Power of Voice Part 2: How Voice Assistants Can Improve Healthcare Outcomes Part 1 "The Power of Voice Experiences for Elderly in Home Healthcare" outlines the differnt voice technologies available and how they can help with the… Read more
Feb 8, 2017 The Power of Voice Experiences for Elderly in Home Healthcare It’s no secret that the US population is aging. According to the Population Research Bureau projections made in 2016, the number of Americans who are 65… Read more