Though there have been notable exceptions, digital health has often proved a slow sell to the medical establishment. The failures of Google Health and HealthVault to gain traction, for example, underscore the challenges of breaking into the workflow of doctors.
Yet over the past month, three technology giants have, in the form of a series of launches, given an endorsement that digital health will be one of the next important technological trends. From Google has come an API infrastructure called Google Fit. From Samsung, the the data platform SAMI, and from Apple the developer tool Healthkit.
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