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By Jonah Comstock | 12:03 pm | December 03, 2014
A California hospital has begun requiring certain patients use a wearable remote patient monitoring device in order to comply with internal patient safety protocols.
By Jonah Comstock | 10:12 am | December 03, 2014
Medigo, a Berlin-based medical travel startup, has raised $6.
By Aditi Pai | 10:11 am | December 03, 2014
Massachusetts General Hospital Director of Healthcare Transformation Lab Eric Isselbacher The key to patient engagement is educating the patient so that the doctor-patient relationship resembles a partnership, according to Massachusetts General Hospital’s Dr.
By Aditi Pai | 07:14 am | December 03, 2014
New York City-based Kinsa Health has announced that its FDA-cleared smartphone-connected thermometer is now available at CVS and Apple Stores across the US as well as online at Amazon, Apple.
By Jonah Comstock | 10:42 am | December 02, 2014
Mount Sinai's patient stay app.
By Brian Dolan | 09:00 am | December 02, 2014
Misfit, maker of the activity tracking devices Shine and Flash, has raised $40 million from China-based strategic investors ecommerce giant JD.
By Jonah Comstock | 08:46 am | December 02, 2014
Google-backed 23andMe is finally relaunching its mail-order personal genome service -- just not in the United States.
By Aditi Pai | 07:59 am | December 02, 2014
Using a smartphone app to monitor weight loss is effective if the user is willing to self-monitor calories, but for most patients, using a health app won't result in a substantial weight change, according to a UCLA study in the Annals of Internal Medicine of 212 primary care patients.
By Jonah Comstock | 10:24 am | December 01, 2014
Bradley Merrill Thompson testifying before Congress last year.