TY - JOUR T1 - Potential for placing voice-activated devices to improve patient care in general practices as well as patients’ homes JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 111 LP - 111 DO - 10.3399/bjgp20X708437 VL - 70 IS - 692 AU - Christopher J Weatherburn Y1 - 2020/03/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/70/692/111.1.abstract N2 - I read with interest this real-world study that shows promise in which voice-activated devices such as Amazon’s ‘Alexa’ can be placed in patient’s homes.1 Clearly Amazon will have performed extensive testing and had user input into its design and functionality given the sales success, with more than 100 million of these devices having been sold.2 Beneficial first-hand user experience has been previously written about for people with health … ER -