Wellpepper’s Sugarpod wins Alexa Diabetes Challenge
Sugarpod is a concept for an interactive diabetes care plan solution that provides tailored tasks based on patient preferences.
Alexa Diabetes Challenge announces five finalists
Each finalist will receive $25,000 and 10,000 AWS promotional credits, and advance to the Virtual Accelerator.
Alexa Diabetes Challenge launched to make life easier for diabetics
The contest invites developers to create apps that use Amazon's Alexa voice-enabled technology and Amazon Web Services cloud infrastructure to help patients recently diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes.
Virgin Pulse now has its own Amazon Alexa Skill
The Virgin Pulse Alexa Skill will provide screenless tracking for the program's most popular habits, like nutrition, sleep, activity, and water intake.
WebMD comes to Amazon Alexa
The site's physician-reviewed information about conditions, drugs, symptoms and other health-related topics now available in response to spoken questions.
Amazon Echo gets its first healthcare skill – KidsMD
Boston Children's Hospital launches cloud-based education on Amazon Alexa-enabled devices to answer questions around fever and other common symptoms.
Fitbit, Amazon bring voice-enabled fitness capabilities to Alexa
Users are able to ask Amazon Echo how they are doing on any given day and get results from their Fitbit app without looking on their phone.
Philips to use AWS to expand digital health solutions in the cloud
HealthSuite Digital Platform on AWS allows for the ramp up from the current 7 million connected devices to hundreds of millions of devices and sensors.
GOQii Life reward-based fitness tracker launches on Amazon India
What makes GOQii different from many other fitness trackers is its built-in reward system that allows users to cash in steps into a virtual currency.
Amazon eyeing the digital health sector
The online retail giant has recently met with the FDA but what the two parties discussed is unknown; is Amazon looking to create a HealthKit-like service?