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The AMA just launched a startup aimed at solving a growing problem with healthcare

By Business Insider  
   January 12, 2016

It's no big secret that Silicon Valley is taking its time to disrupt the health care system, though not for lack of trying. But from apps to cloud systems to internal computer systems that store patient information in hospitals that work to make patient information easily share-able, there's still a disconnect and sometimes even a seeming unwillingness for doctors to adopt the technology. "We have this incredibly fragmented system," Dr. James Madara, CEO of the American Medical Association, America's largest organization of physicians, told Business Insider. "The physician is really at the epicenter of what has to happen around the patient, and in getting services and products into the marketplace, what we've learned is that physicians have relatively little input or guidance."

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