DIGITAL ASSISTANT FOR HEALTH REQUESTS

• Main Authors: CHIAO, Sue Wen, MAURY, Christopher L, CHENG, Jamie, LASKO, Rae Lee, SCHONBRUN, Marc Edward, BHUWALKA, Kunal Karan, LIN, Irene G, WEBB, Christopher Matthew, AU, Quannon, BOOKER, Susan L, CHEN, Xingliang, CROWLEY, Matthew W
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 24.11.2022
• Subjects: HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONTECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING ORPROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTEDFOR SPECIFIC APPLICATION FIELDS; PHYSICS

An example method includes receiving, by a digital assistant capable of accessing a plurality of types of health information, a natural language input associated with a type of health information of the plurality of types of health information; in accordance with a determination that the natural language input corresponds to a health domain: determining whether the digital assistant is authorized to access the type of health information; in accordance with a determination that the digital assistant is authorized to access the type of health information: initiating a task based on the natural language input; and in accordance with a determination that the digital assistant is not authorized to access the type of health information: providing a second output indicating that the digital assistant is not authorized to access the type of health information.