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CureApp Launches Prescription Platform for Therapeutic Apps

October 26, 2020

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Tokyo-based health tech CureApp said on October 23 that it has started providing medical institutions with a prescription platform for therapeutic apps, which could be used not only for the company’s just approved quit-smoking app but also digital therapeutics that…

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