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The Digital Health Consumer According to Rock Health

Health Populi

A longer-term solution would be for consumers to control their own health data in secure data lockers. Check out Estonia and Switzerland for case studies on that. There are early blockchain-enabled examples of this emerging, dotted around the world. In the meantime, in the U.S.,

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From Boost Mobile and Swype to Xealth: One Entrepreneur’s Journey into Healthtech

Chilmark Research

I have followed this area closely for years – my first real startup attempt was a prescribable app platform in the early days of mHealth ( RxApps ) – but to date, none have actually found a successful business model. I wanted to make a change in health care, improve the health, welfare and society of the US population.

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