These so-called virtual assistants are algorithms, and function as a form of artificial intelligence (AI). In that regard, you ask questions, and they respond similarly to how an actual assistant would, except much faster. Someday algorithms like Siri and Alexa could provide high quality health advice.
Category: Health Reform
A Tale of Two States and Two Cities
They have comparable populations — New York with about 20 million people, Florida with 23 million. But New York state’s budget is more than double that of Florida ($239 billion vs. roughly $116 billion).
Social Media Boasts a Lot of Bogus Health Information
I was recently on Facebook when a friend of a friend posted this chart. He paired it with a query: Is this due to something we ate? Or something injected in us. Presumably he was referring to food additives and vaccinations. Many of the comments that followed opined that it’s probably a combination of both factors… I began to do some checking, and I quickly found more answers about why rates in the chart had risen so much. Basically, the list of disease burden is bogus, it’s totally wrong, made up, fabricated.