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Device, Pharma Execs Explore mHealth Ecosystem At ATA Fall Forum

A Sept. 11 session on mHealth innovation at the American Telemedicine Association Fall Forum in New Orleans hosted experts representing the medical device industry, pharma, physicians, providers and patient activists.

Medical device makers and other mHealth app developers must learn how to best distribute private health data among patients, physicians, providers and payers, according to Dexcom Vice President of Strategic Affairs Richard Yang, speaking last week at a telemedicine conference in New Orleans.

“It becomes a big design challenge right from the start,” said Yang during a Sept

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