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Walgreens announced that it expanded its telehealth offering, which the company launched in partnership with MDLive last year, to 20 more states.

Los Angeles-based Heal, which has developed an app that helps people request a doctor to visit their house, announced that it is now in-network with Anthem Blue Cross of California.

Duke Medicine is one of the organizations that recently launched a ResearchKit app in the second wave of iPhone-enabled clinical trials.

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey has announced that it has tapped AbilTo to offer members the option to participate in therapy sessions via phone or video after they've experienced a cardiac event.

NYC-based pharma company Pfizer currently has 15 apps in the US iOS app store, ranging from a chapstick companion app to an app for people with kidney cancer.

Innovators in healthcare need to shift their focus in four key areas in order to develop effective digital health offerings for seniors, according t0 AARP's CEO Jo Ann Jenkins, who spoke at the HIMSS Connected Health Summit in the Washington DC-area this week.

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) describes itself as the second largest integrated payor-provider network after Kaiser Permanente.

Gobiquity Mobile Health (formerly iCheck Health Connection), has officially launched its vision screening smartphone app, called GoCheck Kids.

The CITY Android app used in the Duke study.

Some 58 percent of smartphone users have downloaded a health-related app, according to a NYU Langone Medical Center study of 1,604 US smartphone owners conducted in June 2015.