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A glitch in diabetes monitors serves as a cautionary tale for health tech

The challenge with incorporating technology in health: You can deal with Twitter being down, but not the loss of a device that keeps your kid’s blood sugar at safe levels.

Here’s the challenge for technology in health care: Success means that new tech also becomes too indispensable to fail. You can deal with Twitter being down, but not the loss of a device that keeps your kid’s blood sugar at safe levels.

That message was driven home in recent days by Dexcom, a

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