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AP/Seattle Post-Intelligencer: MIT Grad Delivers Tech for Health Care

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 24, 2004

“Vikram Kumar is hardly your typical tech chief executive. He
shares a two-bedroom apartment with a sister and a nephew and gets
around town by bicycle or in a 20-year-old Mercedes Benz.

“The 28-year-old MIT graduate works days as a pathology resident
at Brigham and Women’s Hospital across the Charles River in Boston
and only turns his energies at night to his business: improving
rural health care in the developing world with handheld computer
technology…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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