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By Brian Dolan | 01:36 pm | October 01, 2014
As the third quarter of 2014 comes to an end, both Rock Health and StartUp Health have posted reports -- as they always do -- that tracked the amount of funding raked in by digital health companies over the course of the past few months and for the year so far.
By Jonah Comstock | 11:39 am | October 01, 2014
Health insurers need to make a change fast, according to a new report from investment firm the Psilos Group.
By Aditi Pai | 11:23 am | October 01, 2014
Close to 75 percent of adults do not use a fitness device or app to track their weight, diet, or exercise, according to a survey of 979 US adults conducted by research firm TechnologyAdvice.
By Jonah Comstock | 11:06 am | October 01, 2014
How can digital and mobile technology transform the stationary bike experience to make it more like riding an actual bike? This is a question that a handful of digital health startups have tried to address recently, but London-based Zwift has a new approach: a stationary bike MMO, or massively multiplayer online game.
By Jonah Comstock | 11:02 am | September 30, 2014
Boehringer Ingelheim is a pretty familiar name to people who follow mobile health moves from pharma companies.
By Brian Dolan | 10:32 am | September 30, 2014
San Francisco-based Netpulse, which offers software to fitness clubs that connects fitness devices and apps to gym equipment, has raised $18.
By Aditi Pai | 10:00 am | September 30, 2014
Mountain View, California-based Bellabeat has announced three new products for expecting mothers.
By Aditi Pai | 09:01 am | September 30, 2014
This week several companies announced that their apps now integrate with Apple's new Health app, which is preloaded on all new iOS devices and any Apple device that downloads the new iOS 8 operating system.
By Jonah Comstock | 04:00 am | September 30, 2014
Basis Science, the wearable company that was acquired in March by Intel’s new devices group, has unveiled a new wearable, the Basis Peak fitness and sleep tracker.
By Jonah Comstock | 10:31 am | September 29, 2014
IBM's Watson, a cognitive computing system originally designed to vanquish human competitors on Jeopardy in 2011, has been winding its way into more and more healthcare and health-related use cases.