Forbes April 30, 2015
Matthew Herper

Today, at a glitzy press conference at IBM’s new Watson headquarters in Manhattan’s swank Silicon Alley, IBM and Apple announced that they are partnering with Japan Post, which is among other things the largest health- and life-insurance company in Japan, to start a project that will provide iPads to millions of senior citizens with the aim of improving their health and their lives.

The project will help Japan Post, which already has a massive Big Data-style collection of health care information, to both know more about its customers and to improve the health and wellness of its seniors, which could, it stands to reason, also improve the financial health of its insurance businesses by allowing customers to live longer, healthier...

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