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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

In the first strategic partnership for Healthcare NExT, Microsoft worked with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to develop digital services intended to reduce drudgery for physicians and improve patientsexperiences. Google started a health-records initiative in 2008, but shut it down by 2011, citing poor adoption.

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Review of Mobile Devices and Health by Ida Sim in the NEJM

mHealth Insight

40 In one survey, more than half of users of activity trackers stopped using their device, and a third did so in the first 6 months. 41 Strategies to improve engagement include discussion between patient and provider of goals for tracking and clear plans for attaining them. smartphone users, 68 have lower average income than iOS users.