Google, IBM to spur adoption of portable health monitoring tools
Submitted by John Farrell on Thu, 02/05/2009 - 6:49pm
Google has teamed with IBM to develop a service that will allow patients to use IBM's software to upload information from home-health monitoring devices to their personal medical records in Google Health. The collaboration aims to boost the use of portable devices and online systems to monitor diabetes and other chronic ailments.
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