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Health Insurer's App Helps Users Track Themselves

Aetna sees cost savings in helping people track their health and fitness.

A smartphone app that launches this week from the health insurance company Aetna helps users monitor their own health-tracking data. As costs spiral upward, health-care companies could eventually turn to such apps as a way to encourage healthy behavior.