Digital Health Tools Ready For A Health Care System That Isn’t
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
Companies developing new digital health technologies say that the US health system needs to upgrade and start adopting tools that can track patients beyond hospital walls. Qualcomm Life aims to assist by merging data into information that health care providers can actually use.
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