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In 2002, Venezuelan-born Manny Hernandez received his first diagnosis of diabetes. Living in Arizona at the time, he was 30, overweight, and told he had type II diabetes. Over the next several months he struggled to keep control over his condition and by early 2003 his family doctor ran out of ideas, and the traditional therapies were not working, so he was referred to an endocrinologist.
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Ranck, J. (2016). Patients, Platforms, and Wearables: Co-creating Value from Health Data and Wearables. In: Ranck, J. (eds) Disruptive Cooperation in Digital Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40980-1_2
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