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Apple Health: Apple Health, or Apple HealthKit, is a preinstalled app on Apple Watch and all iOS8 devices that contains an easy-to-read dashboard for a person’s fitness and healthdata. AW9: American Well’s next generation product line, AW9 , was revealed at HIMSS 2016 in Las Vegas.
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