New York City: a health-tech hub by 2020?

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Two of the biggest growth trends over the coming decades are health and technology, the epicenters of which are generally considered to be Boston and Silicon Valley respectively. So, is it even reasonable to ask whether New York can be a ‘health-tech hub’ by 2020, as a number of people have been doing recently? For this discussion, health tech is considered a loosely defined term that incorporates health IT, mobile health and many of new consumer-empowered solutions connected with the ‘Health2.0’.

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