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By Jonah Comstock | 11:26 am | July 16, 2014
Australian company dorsaVi has received FDA clearance for its ViMove sensor system.
By Brian Dolan | 11:16 am | July 16, 2014
In June 2013 Jawbone, makers of the UP fitness tracking bracelet, quietly acquired San Francisco-area startup Nutrivise for an undisclosed sum -- MobiHealthNews broke the news last summer.
By Aditi Pai | 08:00 am | July 16, 2014
Philadelphia research park University City Science Center announced that seven startups will join its first digital health-focused program, simply called Digital Health Accelerator (DHA).
By Tom Sullivan | 05:24 pm | July 15, 2014
The companies will work toward the "Holy Grail of vision care," one CEO said, while also monitoring insulin levels of diabetics.
By Aditi Pai | 10:36 am | July 15, 2014
Researchers at Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have developed a smartphone-connected tool that can sense dust levels, which can be an important metric for some public health issues.
By Jonah Comstock | 10:20 am | July 15, 2014
The corporate wellness market is an increasingly big opportunity for activity trackers like Fitbit, but data is just now starting to come in about how much those programs really help corporations.
By Aditi Pai | 10:14 am | July 15, 2014
Just over 71 percent of obese or overweight employees using employee wellness program HeiaHeia have improved health and fitness since starting the program, according to a survey of 2,039 users that Finland-based H2 Wellbeing, the company behind HeiaHeia, conducted.
By Aditi Pai | 10:04 am | July 15, 2014
Two recent surveys, one from activity tracker maker Withings and the other from research firm IDC Health Insights asked consumers about their engagement with connected health devices.
By Jonah Comstock | 07:05 am | July 15, 2014
Just seven months after announcing its ambitious contact lens program, Google has announced a partnership with Novartis eye care division Alcon to license its still-largely-theoretical "smart lens" to the Swiss pharma company.
By Jonah Comstock | 11:57 am | July 14, 2014
The new Kinect, the second generation of Microsoft's motion capture camera technology, has been making healthcare headlines for nearly a year now as a few select companies were able to tinker with prototypes.