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Thomas Dworetzky, Contributing Reporter | October 11, 2017
Ceders Sinai in Los Angeles is also looking at Alexa.
"We are fascinated with it," said its CIO Darren Dworkin, noting that, "we need a killer app before it gets mainstream, but I don't know what that will be yet."
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The company has also sought strategic agreements in the health care space. For example, in 2016,
Amazon Web Services partnered with the American Heart Association.
The news that Amazon is ramping up to move into health care was hinted at when company CEO, Jeff Bezos, spoke with Walter Isaacson, president of the Aspen Institute, at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit in October, 2016.
At the time Bezos told the crowd, “I think health care is going to be one of those industries that is elevated and made better by machine learning and artificial intelligence ... And I actually think Echo and Alexa do have a role to play in that."
“It would be going too far to say that we have worked out a vision,” he noted, but added that, “we’re working on having a vision in that arena because I do think it would be very helpful … The medical care system is so big, no one company can do this. It has to be that you provide tools, and then hospitals and doctors and nurses and so on use those tools to improve health care.”
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