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Sharecare and Blackberry launch new BBM Channel
BlackBerry Limited (NASDAQ: BBRY; TSX: BB), a worldwide leader in safe mobile interactions, today announced a growth of its partnership with Sharecare, a leading digital health and health engagement platform, to provide customers with much better and more safe and secure understandings into their health.
Together, the business have released the Sharecare BBM channel, which hosts info from experts, consisting of health organizations and doctor. Specialists varying from the American Cancer Society to licensed physicians and nurses, and luminaries from Deepak Chopra to Dr. Oz can be connected to users to assist them find the health responses, suggestions and resources that are right for them. The Sharecare BBM channel lives on a user's smartphone right in BBM for access anywhere at any time; and with notifications constructed into BBM, users can receive important health updates on the Sharecare channel or when somebody interacts with a post on the channel.
"Beyond BlackBerry's best-in-class privacy requirements, their extensive reach gets us closer to understanding our vision of becoming the de-facto digital health destination for anybody, anytime, anywhere and on any device," stated Jeff Arnold, founder and CEO of Sharecare. "In certain, the Sharecare BBM channel offers us with a special and safe opportunity to provide numerous millions more consumers with the suggestions and tools they need to help them live their healthiest lives.".
"Leveraging Sharecare's rich background and pedigree in the healthcare industry, we're able to provide an opportunity for consumers to access essential health-related information in a safe and safe way via BBM Protected," stated Marty Beard, COO, BlackBerry. "We are attending to the privacy concerns customers may have relating to personal health information and guaranteeing we're offering the solutions required to prevent anything that could compromise delicate info.".
BBM works on iOS , Android , and BlackBerry mobile phones and is totally free to download. The Sharecare health care channel is readily available now via BBM Channels. Find out more about BBM at www.bbm.com.