Knocked-Down Blackberry Unveils The Medtech Smartphone

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Beleaguered smartphone maker BlackBerry (NSDQ:BBRY) is diving headlong into digital health with a new smartphone platform focused on medical professionals.

Blackberry allied with NantHealth, which makes medical device interoperability systems, to develop a service platform designed to aggregate data from thousands of devices in order to generate insight into the spread of disease. Sign up to get our free newsletters delivered straight to your inbox

The companies plan to offer a smartphone designed to tap into the medical device network to integrate data from a variety of devices, including ECG machines, scanners and other systems. Blackberry's platform will also provide analytics and decision support, Healthcare Global wrote.

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