The next Big Tech battle: Amazon s bet on healthcare begins to take shape | Financial Times

Millions talk to Amazon s voice assistant every day with mostly mundane commands, like play music or set timer 11 minutes for pasta . At Houston Methodist hospital the very same technology instead hears: Start surgery.

Over the past year, a tie-up between the network of eight hospitals and its cloud computing arm Amazon Web Services has led to voice activation being built into an experimental operating theatre, powered by much of the same technology found in the Alexa assistant. The commands start running through vital steps in the operation, allowing the surgeon to verbally confirm when he or she has taken certain actions, such as administering anaesthesia.

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Time to start being nice to Alexa. She not only knows everything about you. Soon she’ll be doing your bypass.