Healthcare: Will Wearable Technology Make Us Healthier?
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2017
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Medtronic, Fitbit, and Apple hope to combine wearable technology with data analytics to improve outcomes in important diseases such as diabetes.
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| 0:14.2 | slash fool. Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector |
| 0:20.7 | of the stock market every day. |
| 0:22.5 | Today is May 10th, and I'm your health care show host, |
| 0:25.2 | Christine Harjus. |
| 0:26.4 | I'm here at Fool HQ just outside of Washington, D.C. |
| 0:29.3 | And I have Motley Fool Healthcare Contributor Todd Campbell |
| 0:32.0 | calling in from New Hampshire |
| 0:33.1 | Todd welcome what is the most interesting thing you've written since the last time |
| 0:37.2 | we talked I don't know what the most interesting thing I've written is and I like to |
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| 0:47.8 | think that today's show is going to be absolutely interesting. |
| 0:51.1 | Yeah I hope so. So we have talked on this show before about the |
| 0:55.6 | intersection of technology and health care. One show that comes to mind in |
| 0:58.9 | particular was when I had Motley Full Analyt, Simon Ericsson come on while he was at South by Southwest, which is a tech conference, but with each |
| 1:07.1 | passing year it seems like there's more and more interest in health care from the tech world. |
| 1:12.0 | And so today we want to dive into one particular area |
| 1:14.8 | where tech companies are working in the health care space and that is diabetes. |
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