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By Brian Dolan | 02:53 pm | January 20, 2016
News broke earlier this week that Scripps Translational Science Institute’s Wired For Health study showed the digital health monitoring used in the randomized control trial of 160 patients had no impact on outcomes or the cost of care during the first six months.
By Jonah Comstock | 02:53 pm | January 20, 2016
New York City-based Greatist, an online publication and media brand that focuses on health and wellness content, has raised $4.
By Aditi Pai | 11:43 am | January 20, 2016
Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo announced on Twitter yesterday -- by posting screen shots from his Apple Notes app -- that he is planning to launch a digital health company focused on fitness.
By Aditi Pai | 05:34 pm | January 19, 2016
Seattle, Washington-based EveryMove has shifted its business strategy and announced a new product that helps health plans with member engagement and behavior change, called Tandem.
By Jonah Comstock | 05:31 pm | January 19, 2016
The results are in for the Scripps Translational Science Institute’s Wired For Health study, and there’s no sugar-coating it: they’re disappointing for those working in digital health.
By Aditi Pai | 04:23 pm | January 19, 2016
It's been a few months since MobiHealthNews' last crowdfunding roundup and so there are several new digital health-focused campaigns on Kickstarter and Indiegogo.
By Jonah Comstock | 03:09 pm | January 19, 2016
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are developing tiny sensors that can monitor temperature and pressure within the skull and then dissolve harmlessly into the cranial fluid.
By Jonah Comstock | 01:16 pm | January 19, 2016
According to a just-published 2014 survey of 1,557 US physicians, there’s a big disconnect between support for telehealth and actual use of telehealth technologies.
By Jonah Comstock | 02:40 pm | January 18, 2016
A piece of long-awaited good news for fitness wearable maker Jawbone -- $165 million in new equity funding -- came with two more pieces of bad news: a subsequent drop in valuation and the departure of its recently hired president Sameer Samat, who returned to Google.
By Aditi Pai | 02:35 pm | January 18, 2016
Samsung may be launching a new fitness tracking smartwatch soon, according to Sammobile.