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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.

Apparently Under Armour isn't the only apparel company that can play the fitness app game.

Lowell, Massachusetts-based remote patient monitoring company InfoBionic has raised $8 million led by existing investor Safeguard Scientifics.

By Bradley Merrill Thompson Healthcare in America needs disrupting.