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• Wearing it well: the healthcare potential of wearable technology

  The sector is moving along at great speed, however, and with Google's health data service Google Fit recently launched and Apple promising its own variant HealthKit will be available for ... For example, Google has just signed a deal with Novartis for

• Google: heavy regulation makes healthcare a painful business

  But Brin said he was very excited about Google's glucose reading contact lenses, which "should be coming along pretty well". ... Health has been an increasingly focus for Google and the company last month unveiled fitness platform Google Fit along with

• As Apple's HealthKit is to iOS so could Google Fit be to Android?

  Google Fit is set to launch by the end of this month, according a report by Forbes that came less than two weeks after Apple unveiled its forthcoming Health app and ... will piggyback Google's cloud-based services to build a Google Fit ecosystem.