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Insurance technology could soon bring wearables into health care

Julie Campbell
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Fitness and activity trackers are becoming popular and could provide helpful medical data. Just as pay as you drive policies are becoming popular among auto insurers, a new form of potential insurance technology is now becoming increasingly popular along with the trend of wearable devices and gadgets such as smartwatches and fitness bands. This could prove to be exceptionally helpful to the health care industry, and perhaps to insurers, as well. As fitness trackers such as Fitbit become increasingly commonplace, and major smartwatch manufacturers enhance their products with activity monitoring…

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Samsung unveils mhealth app to take its first steps into the growing marketplace

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New S Health application available on its newest smartphone model. The mhealth industry is drawing an increasing number of major players and Samsung has no intentions of being left out of the millions of dollars it could take from this massive industry segment. The S Health app has now been released and is available for the Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone. This application works by collecting various different types of information about its user so that it can help that individual to build and maintain a healthier way of living.…

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Simplee mhealth app can help better understand health insurance

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The mobile application helps users to access policy information, pay bills, and simplify the claim process. If there is anything that can be said universally about health insurance, it is that policyholders can find it challenging and confusing to understand, manage, and use their policies, but with a new mhealth tool, this will hopefully become easier. Simplee has designed an app to help policyholders with a single user friendly dashboard. Once this app has been downloaded, smartphone owners can use their mobile devices to pay their insurance bills, read the…

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