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A new quantitative era is emerging for digital health, AI, social networks, analytics and precision medicine that will eclipse the disease industry.

Scheduled to open later this month, New York’s newest children’s hospital and inpatient pavilion will have a focus on digital health and technologies.

With its eyes set on a global reach, telehealth giant Teladoc announced that it was acquiring fellow virtual care platform Advance Medical for $352 million this morning.

Unlike other years, health wasn't a major focus at this year's WWDC Apple developer conference keynote — the talk didn't feature a single reference to HealthKit, CareKit, or ResearchKit, in fact.

As of tomorrow, individual genetic risk tests are officially exempt from requiring 510(k) premarket approval, provided the company offering the test has gone through a one-time premarket review of its testing apparatus and at least one test.

Billerica, Massachusetts-based Insulet Corporation, maker of the OmniPod Insulin pump, has just announced that it received the FDA clearance to commercialize its latest product the Omnipod Dash Insulin Management System.

Consumer-grade wearables may not have the same precision as their medical-grade counterparts, but they certainly seem to by favored by patients.

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Telemedicine continues to move from the peripheries of healthcare into the mainstream.

The hospital joins the growing trend of fostering startups with the aim of commercializing new technologies.