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Last week, Rich Wong, partner at investment firm Accel Partners, said he sees more potential for mobile health apps and devices built on Android platforms than Apple, according to a report from Venture Beat.

Singapore-based RingMD launched its first app this week, an Android app designed to connect patients anywhere in the world to doctors anywhere in the world -- although for now the doctors are mostly based in Singapore.

Two and a half years after Google Glass was first announced, its hype train may have lost some steam.

Self-tracking data from wearable devices has gradually become important to your doctors, your employer, and your health insurer.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has reached out to Apple to confirm that the health data collected by Apple's smartwatch, called Apple Watch, will not be sold to third parties, according to a report from Reuters.

Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline is using mobile health tools in a small study -- just six subjects -- that could lead to there more widespread use in clinical trials.

The Utah-based entrepreneur, whose telehealth platform is starting to gain a significant foothold, says ease of use and reimbursement are still keeping providers from jumping on board.

This week MobiHealthNews once again rounded up an up-to-date list of health and wellness apps that connect to Apple's HealthKit, a health and fitness data exchange that makes it easier for iOS apps to share data with each other.

At the Samsung Developer's conference this week, Samsung released the reference design for its wristworn wearable, called Simband, to developers.

A survey by the law firm Foley & Lardner LLP of 57 executives at provider organizations found a healthy interest in telemedicine, but that concrete adoption is still in the early stages, and possibly more than a decade away.