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Appointment booking platform ZocDoc launched a premium service that employers can offer their employees, called ZocDoc for Business.

A number of digital health apps in the Google Play store send unencrypted information over the internet and use of third party services, according to a graduate thesis from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign student Dongjing He.

Sony has officially launched its Sony SmartBand, the device that was announced at the big consumer electronics event CES earlier this year as the Sony Core, in the United States.

Two days after Apple announced a major health tracking partnership with the Mayo Clinic, another big name healthcare provider -- Kaiser Permanente has announced that its flagship app, also called Kaiser Permanente, has now surpassed 1 million downloads.

Healthcare insurance company WellPoint is now marketing an American Well-powered video visits service called LiveHealth Online to its members and other consumers across the US.

A new smartphone-connected device for measuring the nutritional content of food has raised $2.

The Department of Health and Human Service's Idea Lab and the Office of the National Coordinator have partnered with San Diego-based Total Communicator Solutions to develop the Idea Lab's workplace wellness initiative, called Project Boundary.

Developers have already created a beta application harnessing FDA data in a way similar to what the administration hoped would happen.

Kickstarter has made a big change to its submission rules, opening the gates for a lot more projects in previously prohibited categories like cosmetics, pet supplies, and automotive products.

Sometimes mHealth tools help a physician and sometimes they just get in the way. Here's one doctor's take on how to figure out the workflow. And a glimpse inside his app toolbox.