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These patients are sharing their data to improve healthcare standards

A diabetes patient has her pulse checked by diabetes specialist Doctor Tong Xiao Lin during a medical check-up at the Guanganmen Chinese medicine Hospital in Beijing March 19, 2012. In 30 years, the Chinese people have gone from having barely enough to eat to worrying about chronic diseases like diabetes, leaving the healthcare system struggling with a condition that is rapidly outpacing its ability to keep up. Spending on diabetes reached $25 billion in China in 2010, only 6 percent of the $390 billion spent worldwide. But the rate of diabetes in China is already at the same levels as in the West, leaving doctors, drug companies and policymakers to hunt for low-cost alternatives before the disease swamps the rudimentary healthcare system. Picture taken March 19, 2012. To match Feature CHINA-DIABETES/ REUTERS/David Gray (CHINA - Tags: HEALTH SOCIETY) - RTR2ZUB0

Patients share symptoms, treatment information and health outcomes. Image: REUTERS/David Gray

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