What AI Will Do For Patients

Now that AI home assistants are winning the hearts (and living rooms) of people around the world, it's only a matter of time before consumers want their bots to improve their health. Some are doubtlessly already using Amazon Echo's Alexa, Google Home, or Apple's Siri for easy health hacks, like setting medication reminders and looking up possible drug interactions and side effects. Can I have a margarita now?") But we expect bigger ideas soon and bet that efforts like Merck's Amazon Challenge will yield hands-free health help that's far more useful. The ideas that will stick will be those developed from the patients' point of view.