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Take Two Aspirin and Download this App

There is an explosion of apps to help patients with everything from diet to recording an EKG to diagnosing cancer. FDA regulation of apps had not been finalized at the time this story aired, but one company had begun to certify apps and award a seal of approval in some cases. How to use all the data apps generate is “the wild, wild west” of health care.

Place:

No Award

Year:

  • 2013

Category:

  • Consumer/Feature (large)

Affiliation:

WBUR

Reporter:

Martha Bebinger, Margaret Evans, editor,

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