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Digital medicine's march on chronic disease

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Digital medicine offers the possibility of continuous monitoring, behavior modification and personalized interventions at low cost, potentially easing the burden of chronic disease in cost-constrained healthcare systems.

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Figure 1: The shift from acute to chronic disease.

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  1. Joseph C. Kvedar is in the Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, and Partners Connected Health, Partners Healthcare, Boston, Massachusetts, USA,

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  2. Alexander L. Fogel is at Stanford University Graduate School of Business and the Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA,

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  3. Eric Elenko and Daphne Zohar are at PureTech Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,

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Kvedar, J., Fogel, A., Elenko, E. et al. Digital medicine's march on chronic disease. Nat Biotechnol 34, 239–246 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3495

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