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15 ways Silicon Valley is harnessing Big Data for health

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From asthma inhalers to blood-pressure monitors, companies with high-tech approaches are amassing and analyzing giant new data sources.

Globally, healthcare is seeing a surge of interest in the use of big data in healthcare, and Silicon Valley is no exception. Just this past November, Google’s parent company, Alphabet, paid US$2.1 billion to acquire FitBit, for example. Here we present 15 ways Silicon Valley is harnessing big data in health.

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