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Following up on their report on consumerism in healthcare, Rock Health Managing Director Malay Gandhi sat down with a few entrepreneurs that are trying to make direct-to-consumer business models in healthcare work.

Austin, Texas-based RxWiki, which offers a medication encyclopedia written and edited by pharmacists as well as tools to help community pharmacists to communicate with consumers, has raised $5.

The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded Providence's Miriam Hospital and Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center a $1.

Nearly a year after announcing its direct-to-consumer fitness tracker AmpStrip -- and after raising more than $500,000 on Indiegogo for it -- Fitlinxx has announced that it will not be developing AmpStrip as a fitness tracker, but rather as a medical device.

iMHere system Two small studies published results recently that found health-tracking smartphone applications can improve the patient's health.

An American Well video visit.

Almost two years after the FDA first told 23andMe to halt sales on its mail-order direct-to-consumer genetic testing service for disease risks, the company has relaunched a version of its new Personal Genome Service (PGS), which now meets FDA standards.

The FDA has cleared SmartLinx Vitals Plus, a mobile-connected in-hospital patient monitoring system from Qualcomm Life subsidiary Capsule.

Runkeeper has launched a new Apple Watch app with a functionality that the company's core users -- runners -- have been requesting for a long time: It lets them track their run while leaving their smartphone at home.

DispatchHealth, one of the several recent "house call" startups that uses technology to send doctors or nurses to consumers' homes, has partnered with Colorado health system Centura Health to make its care available to some Centura patients in Denver, Colorado, where both companies are based.