Google Inc., IBM Corporation Team on Do-It-Yourself Medical Monitoring Tech

Tech News World -- It’s not “Star Trek” and Dr. “Bones” McCoy’s tricorder sensor, but it is one step closer to where no medical patient has gone before; the ability to stream his or her vital signs from a health monitoring device to a computer, thanks to a partnership announced Thursday by IBM (NYSE: IBM) More about IBM and Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) More about Google.

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