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With $6.6M in recent funding, Icebreaker Health expands availability of Lemonaid text-based telemedicine app
By Jonah Comstock | 01:48 pm | December 08, 2015
Icebreaker Health, a relatively new telemedicine startup that raised $6.
Vitals raises $41M for physician rating, cost comparison offering
By Aditi Pai | 12:48 pm | December 08, 2015
Lyndhurst, New Jersey-based physician rating site Vitals has raised $41 million from the Merchant Banking Division of Goldman Sachs.
Google X Life Sciences is now named Verily
By Jonah Comstock | 06:18 pm | December 07, 2015
Google Life Sciences has finally gotten its new name as an independent company under the aegis of Alphabet: Verily.
2015: Cellular trumps landlines, WiFi in remote patient monitoring for the first time
By Jonah Comstock | 03:42 pm | December 07, 2015
According to a new report from Swedish analyst firm Berg Insight, 4.
MD Revolution raises $23M for chronic care management system
By Aditi Pai | 03:06 pm | December 07, 2015
MD Revolution has raised $23 million in a round co-led by Chicago-based Jump Capital and an undisclosed global healthcare technology company for its mobile chronic care management system.
Weight Watchers' reinvented program Beyond the Scale includes FitBreak app
By Jonah Comstock | 02:45 pm | December 07, 2015
Weight Watchers has unveiled a new program called Beyond the Scale, which includes a new app called FitBreak.
AstraZeneca taps Voluntis for ovarian cancer treatment companion app
By Jonah Comstock | 12:36 pm | December 07, 2015
French companion app company Voluntis has partnered with AstraZeneca to develop an app for women undergoing treatment for ovarian cancer.
Khosla Ventures backs Twine Health as part of $6.8M round for chronic condition health coaching
By Aditi Pai | 12:04 pm | December 07, 2015
Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Twine Health has raised $6.
Report: Under Armour, HTC to launch connected weight scale
By Aditi Pai | 09:08 am | December 03, 2015
Less than a year after Under Armour and HTC announced a partnership to create digital health products for athletes, a report has surfaced that the companies plan to launch a smart scale, according to AndroidHeadlines.
Nonprofit Hacking Medicine Institute to spearhead latest health app curation attempt
By Jonah Comstock | 09:03 am | December 03, 2015
The new Hacking Medicine Institute, a nonprofit that spun out of MIT this past summer, is launching the latest initiative to produce reviews of mobile health apps and digital health tools.