SAN FRANCISCO: Google Inc’s commerce chief, Stephanie Tilenius, has launched Vida, a mobile app that lets patients consult with a team of professionals, including doctors, nurses and nutritionists, from their smartphone. The program costs little each week and includes reminders to take medication. Caregivers and family members can request access to the app to keep up to date with a patient’s progress.
A growing number of high-level Silicon Valley executives from the “sandwich generation” – those who are simultaneously caring for children and parents – have left their jobs to launch mobile and digital health startups…
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