NHS partners with Amazon to provide health information through Alexa

[Northerner]

The NHS has partnered with Amazon to its use voice-assisted technology, Alexa, to provide healthcare information from the NHS website.

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) says the technology will allow patients, including older people and people with visual impairment, to receive NHS-verified health information by way of simple voice commands.

Alexa will use information from the NHS website to answer questions such as: “What are the symptoms of flu?”

It is hoped that the use of such technology will further reduce pressure on GPs by providing information for common illnesses.

https://www.pharmaceutical-journal.com/news-and-analysis/news/nhs-partners-with-amazon-to-provide-health-information-through-alexa/20206788.article

 

[MeeTooTeeTo]

Alexa "What's the cure for diabetes?"
Answer "According to the NHS website: If you're diagnosed with diabetes, you'll need to eat healthily, take regular exercise and carry out regular blood tests to ensure your blood glucose levels stay balanced. People diagnosed with type 1 diabetes also require regular insulin injections for the rest of their life. As type 2 diabetes is a progressive condition, medication may eventually be required, usually in the form of tablets."

 

[Ralph-YK]

Alexa "What's the cure for diabetes?"
Answer "According to the NHS website: If you're diagnosed with diabetes, you'll need to eat healthily, take regular exercise and carry out regular blood tests to ensure your blood glucose levels stay balanced. People diagnosed with type 1 diabetes also require regular insulin injections for the rest of their life. As type 2 diabetes is a progressive condition, medication may eventually be required, usually in the form of tablets."

Something I've recently though is how taking insulin = type 1; if you're taking insulin you must be T1. (even amongs diabetics, that seems to be an assumption).
Plenty of T2 taking insulin from what I can tell.

 

[Northerner]

Something I've recently though is how taking insulin = type 1; if you're taking insulin you must be T1. (even amongs diabetics, that seems to be an assumption).
Plenty of T2 taking insulin from what I can tell.

More t2s use insulin than t1s! 😱 About 900k t2s, and 400k t1s in the UK

 

[mikeyB]

Those figures may be skewed by 3c folk being treated as T2, and as I have said before, 3c is commoner than T1. And as NICE recommend, insulin is the appropriate treatment, which everyone seems to ignore.

It’s a bit murkier than the stark numbers you quote, Northie.