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The amount of health information generated by digital tools is rapidly growing. It can and should be used to improve the quality of health care. This article makes the case and explains what will be required to make it happen.

“Here’s an all-too-common scenario:

June, aged 67, is in the emergency department with abdominal pain and rectal bleeding. Tests reveal inoperable colon cancer that’s probably been developing for years. After several difficult and unsuccessful courses of chemotherapy, she enters hospice care and passes away several weeks later.

Colon cancer is largely curable and often preventable if it’s caught early enough to detect and remove precancerous growths. With recommended screening, June might be alive today. What happened? “

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