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By Jonah Comstock | 12:44 pm | June 05, 2014
As we head into the halfway point of 2014, it's already clear that the trend of mobile and digital health acquisitions is up.
By Brian Dolan | 12:28 pm | June 05, 2014
Where are the HealthKit skeptics? Apple didn't provide a whole lot of meat during its three-minute introduction to its health data aggregation platform, HealthKit, and its consumer-facing companion app, Health.
By Aditi Pai | 09:43 am | June 05, 2014
Appointment booking platform ZocDoc launched a premium service that employers can offer their employees, called ZocDoc for Business.
By Aditi Pai | 09:26 am | June 05, 2014
A number of digital health apps in the Google Play store send unencrypted information over the internet and use of third party services, according to a graduate thesis from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign student Dongjing He.
By Jonah Comstock | 02:46 pm | June 04, 2014
Sony has officially launched its Sony SmartBand, the device that was announced at the big consumer electronics event CES earlier this year as the Sony Core, in the United States.
By Aditi Pai | 11:40 am | June 04, 2014
Two days after Apple announced a major health tracking partnership with the Mayo Clinic, another big name healthcare provider -- Kaiser Permanente has announced that its flagship app, also called Kaiser Permanente, has now surpassed 1 million downloads.
By Brian Dolan | 11:18 am | June 04, 2014
Healthcare insurance company WellPoint is now marketing an American Well-powered video visits service called LiveHealth Online to its members and other consumers across the US.
By Jonah Comstock | 10:22 am | June 04, 2014
A new smartphone-connected device for measuring the nutritional content of food has raised $2.
By Aditi Pai | 10:01 am | June 04, 2014
The Department of Health and Human Service's Idea Lab and the Office of the National Coordinator have partnered with San Diego-based Total Communicator Solutions to develop the Idea Lab's workplace wellness initiative, called Project Boundary.
By Tom Sullivan | 08:49 am | June 04, 2014
Developers have already created a beta application harnessing FDA data in a way similar to what the administration hoped would happen.