This week, researchers at Harvard Medical School's Biomedical Cybernetics Laboratory released two free iPad applications, available on iTunes, intended to help clinicians assess diabetes risk and improve treatment compliance in patients with the disease.

Gil Alterovitz, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and the HMS Center for Biomedical Informatics, told BioInform that he and colleagues developed the apps to provide a standardized method of communicating clinical and genetic information to physicians, caregivers, and patients ...

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