Alexa, I need to go to the bathroom???

[drkshadez]

So what do folks think about this?

New Cedars-Sinai initiative illustrates how using Alexa technology can make healthcare easier

[Forest2]

Oh well, Just something new to sell to hospitals and make profits.

I can foresee all sorts of problems, so now the hospital spends more money keeping the system up with specialized techs and updates. Patients calling the nurse because they can't get it to work, etc.

I did happen to get involved twice yesterday in TV repair. Sorry, I try to turn it off and on, if it won't turn on I don't know what I can do for you. All I can say is wait and try again later, I don't even have the time to put in a work order if it was broken.

[TriciaJ, RN]

17 minutes ago, Forest2 said:

I don't even have the time to put in a work order if it was broken.

I think I've seen the light! "Alexa, call hospital maintenance to fix my TV." "Alexa, let Dietary know my meat was underdone." "Alexa, tell Pharmacy to hurry up and review my new pain med order, so I can get it." "Alexa, call my doctor and ask him for a sleeping pill." "Alexa, call Housekeeping to mop the floor because I spilled coffee." "Alexa, tell the diet aide to bring me another cup of coffee. And not slip on the floor." "Alexa, is it pet therapy day? Tell the volunteers to bring round a critter."

This might have possibilities...

[Daisy4RN]

1 minute ago, TriciaJ said:

I think I've seen the light! "Alexa, call hospital maintenance to fix my TV." "Alexa, let Dietary know my meat was underdone." "Alexa, tell Pharmacy to hurry up and review my new pain med order, so I can get it." "Alexa, call my doctor and ask him for a sleeping pill." "Alexa, call Housekeeping to mop the floor because I spilled coffee." "Alexa, tell the diet aide to bring me another cup of coffee. And not slip on the floor." "Alexa, is it pet therapy day? Tell the volunteers to bring round a critter."

This might have possibilities...

Assuming it works as intended!

Alexa, call the nurse ….for all your above reasons.....

[Forest2]

24 minutes ago, TriciaJ said:

I think I've seen the light! "Alexa, call hospital maintenance to fix my TV." "Alexa, let Dietary know my meat was underdone." "Alexa, tell Pharmacy to hurry up and review my new pain med order, so I can get it." "Alexa, call my doctor and ask him for a sleeping pill." "Alexa, call Housekeeping to mop the floor because I spilled coffee." "Alexa, tell the diet aide to bring me another cup of coffee. And not slip on the floor." "Alexa, is it pet therapy day? Tell the volunteers to bring round a critter."

This might have possibilities...

Hey, this could be great!!!!?

[Daisy4RN]

Don't know about y'all but I would not want to trust Amazon and/or their employees. There is a way to turn on the privacy settings but who knows. I would not want this is my house or my hospital room. Plus if it is on and people are listening and writing down what patients say (or conversations0, who knows what kind of trouble a nurse, or other staff, could stumble in to. Maybe I am paranoid but I don't like it!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/amazon-workers-are-listening-to-what-you-tell-alexa/ar-BBVOMU6?OCID=ansmsnnews11

Plus I think that patients would still call the nurse for needs instead of appropriate staff. That has been my experience.

[TriciaJ, RN]

39 minutes ago, Daisy4RN said:

Don't know about y'all but I would not want to trust Amazon and/or their employees. There is a way to turn on the privacy settings but who knows. I would not want this is my house or my hospital room. Plus if it is on and people are listening and writing down what patients say (or conversations0, who knows what kind of trouble a nurse, or other staff, could stumble in to. Maybe I am paranoid but I don't like it!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/amazon-workers-are-listening-to-what-you-tell-alexa/ar-BBVOMU6?OCID=ansmsnnews11

Plus I think that patients would still call the nurse for needs instead of appropriate staff. That has been my experience.

You're sadly right. Alexa is unlikely to save our feet and our sanity. But can hospitals guarantee Alexa won't be commiting HIPAA violations? That's something to think about.

[Davey Do]

4 hours ago, TriciaJ said:

I think I've seen the light! "Alexa, call hospital maintenance to fix my TV." "Alexa, let Dietary know my meat was underdone." "Alexa, tell Pharmacy to hurry up and review my new pain med order, so I can get it." "Alexa, call my doctor and ask him for a sleeping pill." "Alexa, call Housekeeping to mop the floor because I spilled coffee." "Alexa, tell the diet aide to bring me another cup of coffee. And not slip on the floor." "Alexa, is it pet therapy day? Tell the volunteers to bring round a critter."

This might have possibilities...

[Daisy4RN]

5 hours ago, TriciaJ said:

You're sadly right. Alexa is unlikely to save our feet and our sanity. But can hospitals guarantee Alexa won't be commiting HIPAA violations? That's something to think about.

Yes exactly, HIPPA, a whole other can of worms!

[NICU Guy, BSN, RN]

I wonder how many Amazon Echoes will go missing in the first month of use.

"Oh, I thought it was mine to take home when I was discharged."

[Davey Do]

" ...If a patient needs assistance getting to the restroom, he or she informs Alexa through a voice command. The request is routed directly to the mobile phone or the appropriate caregiver—a nurse, clinical partner, manager, or administrator. A request for medication, for example, goes to the nurse on duty, while the aforementioned bathroom request is routed to a clinical partner.

But if any request is not answered in a timely manner, Aiva has the ability to send it up the chain of command."

[Davey Do]

3 hours ago, NICU Guy said:

I wonder how many Amazon Echoes will go missing in the first month of use.

[NurseSpeedy, ADN, LPN, RN]

18 hours ago, Forest2 said:

That is why you give dementia patients the name of the other nurse, not your own name.?

My tech kept repeating my name to the dementia patients, by the end of the shift that’s all we heard being screamed down a quite hall!

Nurse! Nurse! Nurse! Suddenly had a better appeal than my own name being called while I was still there after my shift documenting. Next day I came in and they had remembered it, because they had been calling it all night also. I thought it was only fair that they know everyone on their care team and gave them a few more names to use the next day (tech, charge, NM-meet your loving care team!).