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At the Samsung Developer Conference this week in San Francisco, the South Korean consumer electronics giant revealed much more about its digital health plans, including the names of 24 partners it has been working with -- a dozen commercial partners and a dozen research partners.

The founders of Kobo, an eReader device company that rivaled Amazon's Kindle, have raised $4 million in seed funding for their next venture: Toronto-based mobile health startup League.

Most healthcare practitioners are either using telemedicine or planning to use it soon, but less than a fifth of them are being paid for those services.

Thirteen percent of consumers plan to purchase a health or fitness wearable device within the next year, according to a survey of 2,000 consumers from Acquity Group, a subsidiary of Accenture.

Philips and Duke University School of Nursing will be piloting a new remote monitoring technology for premature babies, the companies announced today.

Dublin, Ohio-based HealthSpot, which offers telemedicine kiosks for workplace and retail locations, has raised an undisclosed sum from Xerox.

Boca Raton, Florida-based Modernizing Medicine has raised $15 million from existing investors, the company announced yesterday.

An eye scanner may be able to detect glaucoma in patients by examining patterns of eye movements recorded when subjects watch a movie, according to researchers at City University London who published their findings in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience.

There's been a lot of talk lately about integrating activity data collected by devices like the Fitbit or the Misfit Shine into the clinical workflow, but there haven't been too many concrete examples yet.

Shelton, Connecticut-based Fitlinxx, maker of the B-to-B activity tracker Pebble, has announced its newest device, a bandaid-like heart rate tracker, called AmpStrip.