IBM, Google eye broader use of portable health monitoring tools

Google is working with IBM on a service that allows patients to use IBM's software to upload information from home-health monitoring devices to their personal medical records in Google Health. The companies hope that the collaboration will help boost the use of portable devices and online systems to monitor diabetes and other chronic ailments.

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