NHS partners with Amazon to offer health advice via Alexa

In a world-first, Amazon has partnered with the UK's health service, the HNS. From this week, it's voice controlled device, Alexa, will give out health advice, and answer common questions such as 'Alexa, how do I treat a migraine ?'and' Alexa, what are the symptoms of chickenpox?
In response to health-related queries Alexa will now search the NHS choices website for health information ( and there you were thinking Amazon was all about prime day deals).The aim is to ease pressure on the NHS and help those who can't easily access information on the internet-such as the elderly or blind people