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Voice Assistants and Cancer Screening: A Comparison of Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, and Cortana

Grace Hong, Albino Folcarelli, Jacob Less, Claire Wang, Neslihan Erbasi and Steven Lin
The Annals of Family Medicine September 2021, 19 (5) 447-449; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.2713
Grace Hong
1Stanford Healthcare AI Applied Research Team, Division of Primary Care and Population Health, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
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Albino Folcarelli
2Stanford Clinical Observation and Medical Transcription Fellowship, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
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Jacob Less
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vol. 19 no. 5 447-449
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.2713
PubMed 
34546951

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The Annals of Family Medicine
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1544-1709
Online ISSN 
1544-1717
History 
  • Received for publication October 22, 2020
  • Revision received January 29, 2021
  • Accepted for publication February 9, 2021
  • Published online September 13, 2021.

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  1. Grace Hong1,
  2. Albino Folcarelli2,
  3. Jacob Less2,
  4. Claire Wang2,
  5. Neslihan Erbasi2 and
  6. Steven Lin, MD1⇑
  1. 1Stanford Healthcare AI Applied Research Team, Division of Primary Care and Population Health, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
  2. 2Stanford Clinical Observation and Medical Transcription Fellowship, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
  1. CORRESPONDING AUTHOR Steven Lin 211 Quarry Road, Suite 405, MC 5985 Palo Alto, CA 94304 stevenlin{at}stanford.edu

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