Aditi Pai
New York City-based Pager, which offers an app consumers can use to request in-person physician house calls, raised $14 million from New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Sound Ventures, which was founded by Ashton Kutcher.
Newport Beach, California-based Curely, which has developed a telehealth app that allows patients to ask physicians health and wellness questions, raised $2 million in a round led by Exponential Partners.
HealthMine's app
Some 46 percent of people who were diagnosed with a chronic condition in the last two years discovered their chronic illness through a wellness program, according to a HealthMine survey of 750 adults who were enrolled in employer-sponsored wellness programs.
Microsoft has announced that it will discontinue three of its MSN apps: MSN Health & Fitness, MSN Food and Drink, and MSN Travel, which are available on Windows Phone, Android, and iOS.
The annual Most Wired hospitals report and survey results are out, and they include a bevy of metrics about health IT adoption in the US today.
An audiology app for iPhones and iPads, called AudCal, is accurate and correlated with a standard audiogram, according to a study of 110 adults published in Acta Oto-Laryngologica.
Phoenix, Arizona-based Medical Memory has raised $2.
In the past week, a few companies with wristworn activity tracking devices, Withings, Xiaomi, Jawbone, and Misfit, have announced new features or accessories for their trackers.
Researchers from the University of Florida have developed a smart mouth guard, which is embedded with sensors that monitor teeth grinding.
Ireland-based 3D4Medical, which has developed apps for medical education and fitness, raised $16.