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healthcare services and provide new insight and
solution for quality-of-life improvement. The
overarching theme of this wave of digital disruption is that patients are increasingly taking control over their own healthcare, and these patientfriendly advancements will be coming soon.
Figure 3. Requirements of data quality.

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CONCLUSION

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