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Noted telehealth attorney Nathaniel Lacktman examines the difference between coverage and payment parity in state legislation -- and finds some interesting issues.

Boston-based fitness tracking company Lemonade Lab has raised $5.

Welltok SVP Michelle Snyder talks about the impending downfall of fitness devices and the problem with VC funding and new startups.

IBM has finalized plans to acquire Merge Healthcare for $1 billion, in the hopes that assets from the medical imaging software company can teach IBM's cognitive computing unit Watson to "see" medical images.

The Dexcom G4 receiver Continuous glucose monitors are right now a good tool for a certain subset of people with diabetes, but there's still a majority of people, especially with Type 2 diabetes, for whom fingerstick glucometers are still the cheaper, more convenient option.

Stanford has expanded its ResearchKit-based heart health trial, run from the MyHeart Counts iPhone app, to Hong Kong and the United Kingdom.

Crowdsourced business review website Yelp has partnered with non-profit newsroom ProPublica to add more healthcare statistics to Yelp's 25,000 medical treatment facility business pages.

Fitbit Surge Fitbit sold 4.

Arizona Governor Doug Ducey carved out a place for mobile health in his plan for the state's new Medicaid plan this week, but some critics think the initiative could miss the mark for a low-income population less likely to have smartphones.

Boston-based healthcare analytics company Care at Hand has raised $560,000.