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Can Fitbit Data Save Lives?

TREATABLE TECH

Some docs are now claiming fitness tracker data holds no medical value. Meet the tech-savvy Kansas doctor who is proving them wrong.

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Several stubborn ideas have steered much of the discourse around health care. One is that doctors need to work more efficiently and that technology will help; another, that conservatives have no legitimate ideas for health care reform.

For practicing physicians, it’s long been obvious that the first idea is wrong.

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