Meet Eva, the voice-activated 'assistant' for doctors - The Boston Globe

It takes only a few seconds to click a button and open a window on a computer. But for a busy doctor sifting through patient records, those clicks can add up to extra hours spent at a computer each day completing tedious but necessary tasks. Now, in response to doctors' demands for more efficient software, several companies that make electronic health record systems are offering a new tool: voice-activated virtual assistants. Think Apple's Siri or Amazon's Alexa, but for health care providers. Westborough-based eClinicalWorks, a large vendor of electronic health records, has launched what the company calls a first-of-its kind virtual assistant, named Eva, to help doctors and other care providers more quickly find patient information. Just like an Alexa user can stream music and ask for the weather forecast, a physician using Eva can order a prescription or ask for a patient's medical history.