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By Jonah Comstock | 08:30 am | August 18, 2015
In a rare interview with Outside Magazine, Jay Blahnik, Apple's director of fitness for health technologies, spoke about the Apple Watch's impact on users' fitness since it launched, the importance of the Stand ring, and how integration with third-party apps will change the game.
By Aditi Pai | 06:00 am | August 18, 2015
Misfit, maker of the Shine and Flash activity trackers, has partnered with swimwear manufacturer Speedo and announced a new activity tracking device focused on monitoring swimming, called Speedo Shine.
By Jonah Comstock | 11:09 am | August 17, 2015
Apps can help increase the amount of leisure time that users spend exercising as well as positively impacting their BMI, according to a new study in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.
By Jonah Comstock | 09:51 am | August 17, 2015
Israeli medical device company Integrity Applications has begun the process with the FDA to bring its noninvasive glucose monitoring device, GlucoTrack, to the United States.
By Eric Wicklund | 09:32 am | August 17, 2015
A new Accenture report indicates more than half of the digital health startups launched between 2008 and 2013 will fail -- but many will help other companies push the needle forward on innovation and R&D.
By Brian Dolan | 09:20 am | August 17, 2015
Practice Fusion's Ryan Howard (right) and MobiHealthNews' Jonah Comstock at Health 2.
By Brian Dolan | 08:19 am | August 17, 2015
As more and more mobile devices embed biometric sensors, mostly for health and fitness tracking, the market for using biometrics for identifying and authenticating people is trending up, according to a recent report from analyst firm Tractica.
By Jonah Comstock | 07:12 am | August 17, 2015
MyHeart Counts, an app based on AHA guidelines.
By Eric Wicklund | 09:37 am | August 14, 2015
A&D Medical's Terry Duesterhoeft sees the emerging mHealth landscape as one in which the patient/consumer must take charge of his or her health and work with providers to manage it properly.
By Tom Sullivan | 01:19 pm | August 13, 2015
The new OS, a piece of Microsoft's "One Windows" plan, is targeted at small systems, including medical devices.