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SHOW NOTES
Host: Adam Lesser
Speakers: Michael Wolf and Jody Ranck
- The market for wearables in connected health: Medical versus Fitness
- Potential for wearables in health care and research
- Smart watch potential
- Could the smartphone get disrupted as the key input/communications interface?
- Kinect, hearing aids, and the possibility of wearables that provide social context
- Regulatory challenges, privacy and the need for reliable research data for wearables in health care
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