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New handheld medical diagnostic tools promise more efficient, lower-cost healthcare---but at what price?

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            cover image Communications of the ACM
            Communications of the ACM  Volume 56, Issue 8
            August 2013
            85 pages
            ISSN:0001-0782
            EISSN:1557-7317
            DOI:10.1145/2492007
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