Miami Diabetes Patients Get Free Phones

Health Choice Network (HCN), TracFone and Microsoft have teamed up to give free prepaid Windows smartphones to some diabetes patients so they can better keep track of their appointments and health regimens. The program is only available to certain patients in Miami. These free phones will be provided to diabetes patients and will be loaded with prepaid TracFone plans as well as some personalized heatlth applications like HealthVault, Dynamics CRM and other diabetes-centric apps. The phones also will have Office 365 to view documents and Cortana (included on all Windows Phone 8.1 models) to give patients reminders about medication and schedules. According to the TechRadar article, HCN will register consenting users with an application that will help them keep track of their heath regimen by giving detailed medial reminders, treatment information and blood sugar level monitoring technology.]]>