MyFitnessPal, a company that offers a popular app to help people lose weight, has raised $18 million in a first round of funding.
Wearable computers have generated a good deal of hype and crowdfunding dollars, but it’s still early days for this technology.
At Rock Health’s Innovation Summit, a conference focused on digital health, Dyson offered rare insight into her ambitious plan to improve healthy living throughout America.
Glow — the super-hyped get-pregnant-now app — announced a $6 million funding round today, the same day it hit the app store.
A company called Kinsights this week launched its cloud-based digital health record and community forum, specifically for parents.
Jef Holove of Basis Science believes that we’ll have a wide variety of wearable devices.
ClearDATA focuses on making secure, HIPPA-, HITECH Act-, and ePHI-compliant cloud software for healthcare professionals and organizations. Its platform is designed to cut costs while improving productivity and regulatory compliance.
Sponsored Post As the cost of fitness- and health-monitoring gadgets go down, and ubiquitous cloud infrastructure makes data collection easy, there’s a big opportunity to help improve the quality of health care while reducing its costs.
New York-based startup Maxwell Health just raised $2 million to help employers set up affordable health and wellness plans.
The UK Department for Transport is working proactively to enact regulations that would bar drivers from wearing Google Glass while operating a motor vehicle.
Employee wellness represents a $2.7 billion to $8.2 billion market opportunity as regulatory changes increase reimbursement rates for related programs. Startups have a big chance to use technology to improve worker health.
Sponsored Post When Steve Jobs recruited John Sculley to Apple 30 years ago, he became the first big brand consumer marketer to head a Silicon Valley company.
Hospitals are developing systems to tap into consumer health data, and deliver it to physicians.
Editor’s Pick Last year Twitter sales exec Amanda Levy quit her job, lived in a hut in Africa with no power and no water, cycled with her father on the Oregon Coast, became certified as a yoga instructor, and travelled the world.
Apple added an explanatory page to its Chinese website in response to recent news stories of Chinese citizens receiving electric shocks while answering their charging iPhones.
Editor’s Pick In the still-nascent digital health space, Apple could serve as a regulator of sorts — a platform, perhaps or a hub — just as it has done with smartphone apps, music, podcasts, and even online courses.
SynapDx has earned the support of venture capitalists and geneticists alike, raising $15.4 million to develop a blood test for autism.
What’s the next innovation in health IT? According to Boston-based entrepreneur Zoe Barry, it’s about time we made it easier to pick up a prescription at the pharmacy.
Angels are investing more for the same valuation, and apparently they don’t like to travel.
Editor’s Pick Once Venice was the capital of global glass-making. Now, wearable computing pioneer and GlassUp CEO Francesco Giartosio is hoping that lightning will strike twice.
Google, however, is not, and has already asked the company to change the name.
