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Boston Children's Hospital is exploring how patients and staff could use Amazon's voice recognition system to improve care and save time.

Health has truly met wealth with the new strides of tech giants Google and Apple who are becoming increasingly confident in healthcare. While early advances, such as Google Glass in the OR, arguably left little impact on the healthcare sector, more recent efforts by both organisations have demanded more serious consideration by hospital systems, consumers, regulators and life sciences organisations. 

In this week's blog we take a look at some of the notable healthcare activities Google and Apple have engaged in so far in an effort to provide an insight into their healthcare strategies and where healthcare incumbents may be challenged or where healthcare organisations may stand to benefit from the precedent and structure they pave in the slowly shifting healthcare environment.