Voice assistant programs such as Apple’s Siri and Google’s Alexa, as well as voice search, are poised to transform how patients and physicians find medical information in Europe, research from Manhattan Research.
- Over half of EU5 physicians (56%) use or are interested in using voice assistants in their work
- Among the 17% of EU5 physicians already using voice assistants, Apple’s Siri is used by two in three for clinical practice, while Google Assistant is used by half (Amazon’s Alexa comes in third place, used by 27% of these early adopters)
- Use of voice assistants by physicians was particularly high in southern European markets such as Spain, where 1 in 4 (24%) physicians uses a voice assistant in clinical practice
Consumer use of voice search for health is very modest, but demand is strong, with 45% of European adults online expressing interest in using voice assistants for health-related needs. Notably, nearly one in four European smartphone users use voice search on that device, and among these mobile voice search users, one in four say they’re increasingly opting for voice search over typing in search terms.
