Alexa can now tell you about your blood sugar levels

Amazon announced that its Alexa-enabled devices can now handle customers' sensitive medical data.

Update: 2019-04-07 06:48 GMT
The Amazon Echo smart speakers run on Alexa voice assistant whereas Google's Home series of speakers utilise the Google Assistant.

It might not be exactly private, but certainly helpful. You will now be able to ask Alexa to pull out important data from your health records.

Amazon announced that its Alexa-enabled devices can now handle customers’ sensitive medical data. A new kit will allow approved developers to build Alexa skills that have access to the health data, Wired reports.

The new skills allow Alexa to relay and store blood sugar measurements from internet-connected monitoring devices, schedule doctors’ appointments, pass on post-op instructions from hospitals, and provide prescription delivery updates by securely accessing customers’ private medical information.

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