Alexa health advice (Alexa can supplement your prescription to remind you to take it)

Amazon's healthcare service now includes a simple but important convenience: the ability to manage our prescriptions through your smart speakers. The company works with Omnicell, and Alexa not only reminds you when to take your medicine, but also replenishes it when you run out of it. Once you have linked your pharmacy account and enabled your pharmacy skills, you will be reminded based on your prescription data-if you are not sure what to take, you can ask for it. If you need more, you can tell Alexa to "add my prescription" to make the pharmacy work properly.

There are several privacy layers to ensure that others do not pry into your medication history. You need to use an Alexa voice profile and a personal password to access the data. In addition, remove any interaction with pharmacy skills to prevent someone from simply viewing mobile applications.

Currently, only Giant Eagle Pharmacy customers who have installed store skills can use this feature. However, there will be more pharmacies by 2020. To be sure, this is part of a fairly large plan. Amazon entered the pharmaceutical industry because of its acquisition of PillPack, and there is no doubt that it wants PillPack to integrate as closely as possible with other businesses. Even if you don't care about the official store, if you often take prescription drugs and don't want to rely on mobile apps, this may make Echo (or other Alexa-enabled devices) the first choice. Keep tracking.