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By Aditi Pai | 10:38 am | December 21, 2015
In 2015, MobiHealthNews wrote about 208 funding deals that totaled $2.39 billion. While a majority of the funding announcements were positioned as equity deals, a small percentage of the rounds also included debt, securities, or options. Read on for a list of all the funding MobiHealthNews wrote about in 2015, along with links to each. For a more comprehensive picture of digital health funding, check out Rock Health's 2015 report, which tracked $4.3 billion this year, or StartUp Health's report, which tracked $5.8 billion. We also expect Health 2.0's 2015 funding report to be published once the year has actually ended. Here are the top 10 largest funding deals in digital health that we wrote about this year: ZocDoc, a mobile and online appointment booking platform, raised $130 million. MoreVirgin Pulse, an employee wellness platform, raised $92 million. MoreCollective Health, a software company that helps small employers transition to self-funded plans, raised $81 million. More23andMe, a mail-order personal genetics service and research company, raised $115 million. MoreOne Medical Group, a concierge healthcare provider, raised $65 million. MoreGrand Rounds, a company that works with consumers and employers to match patients with specialist doctors and helps provide second opinions, raised $55 million. MoreTigerText, a healthcare-focused secure messaging company, raised $50 million. MoreDoctor On Demand, a video visits company, raised $50 million. MorePillPack, virtual pharmacy, raised $50 million. MoreMDLive, a telemedicine company, raised $50 million. More Deals between $20 million and $49 million: Omada Health, a health management company, raised $48 million. MoreEvariant, physician marketing and engagement company, raised $42.3 million. MoreVitals, a physician rating site, raised $41 million. MoreQuyi, medical app developer, raised $40 million. MoreAdvance Health, a company that makes mobile patient data capture software for managed care providers, raised $40 million. MoreModernizing Medicine, a mobile-based electronic medical record company, raised $38 million. MoreCollective Health, a software as a service offering that helps companies that have 100 or more employees transition to a self funded insurance plan. MoreAthos, a health sensing apparel company, raised $35.5 million. MoreLyra Health, a behavioral health-focused startup, raised $35 million. MoreScanadu, a company designing a multi-function home health device, $35 million. MorePokitDok, a company designing healthcare price comparison tool and API-based tools for healthcare developers, raised $34 million. MoreHeadspace, a meditation app that aims to help users with stress, focus, and anxiety, raised $34 million. MoreOscar, a small New York City-based health insurer noted for its individual focus and digital health savvy, raised $32.5 million. MoreHealthiestYou, which offers a health app through employers, raised $30 million. MoreAledade, a tech-enabled accountable care company, raised $30 million. MoreIora Health, a healthcare provider, raised $28 million. MoreSharecare, the health and wellness engagement platform founded by WebMD founder Jeff Arnold and television personality Dr. Mehmet Oz, raised $20 million. MoreJiff, an employee health benefits platform, raised $23.3 million. MoreMD Revolution, a mobile chronic care management system, raised $23 million. More WellDoc, which has developed a mobile-enabled diabetes management offering, raised $22 million. MoreWelltok, the health management company that makes the CafeWell Health Optimization Platform, raised $21.3 million. MoreDoctoLib, a French doctor booking startup, raised $20 million. MoreNovu, its app-enabled wellness program, which it offers to payors, providers, and employers, raised $20 million. MoreLivongo Health, the diabetes management company launched last fall by former Allscripts CEO Glen Tullman, raised $20 million. MoreEarlySense, an Israeli company which makes a passive and contactless bedside monitor that continuously measures respiration rate, heart rate, and motion, raised $20 million. MoreGinger.io, a health behavior monitoring and analytics startup, raised $20 million. MoreHello, which offers a sleep tracking, bedside orb, Sense, raised $20 million. More Deals between $10 million and $20 million: Amino, a new company that aims to use big data to help match consumers with the best doctor for them, launched $19.4 million. MoreCareSync, a care coordination platform, raised $18 million. MoreGlooko, which offers a diabetes management system, raised $16.5 million. More3D4Medical, which has developed apps for medical education and fitness, raised $16.4 million. MoreAugmedix, which has developed a Google Glass clinical documentation offering for physicians, raised $16 million. MoreSpruce, a direct-to-consumer remote dermatology care service, raised $15 million. MoreCrossover Health, a patient engagement offering, raised $15 million. MoreNoom, wellness app maker, raised $16.1 million. MoreVidyo, a videoconferencing company that works with healthcare stakeholders, raised a $10 million. MorePager, which offers an app consumers can use to request in-person physician house calls, raised $14 million. MoreLumity, a data-driven benefits management company, raised $14 million. MoreMDsave, a medical procedure payment service, raised $12 million. MoreGoqii, a health coaching service, raised $13.4 million. MoreCarena, which offers a video visit service for health systems, raised $13.3 million. MoreStride Health, which helps people shopping for health insurance on the open exchanges by providing a more advanced search engine, raised $13 million. MoreCureatr, which has developed a mobile care coordination offering, raised $13 million. MoreValidic, a health data platform company, raised $12.5 million. MoreWhoop, a Boston-based wearable company working on a device for athletes, raised $12 million. MoreWelltok, the health management company that makes the CafeWell Health Optimization Platform, raised $12 million. goBalto,which offer a software-as-a-service clinical research platform, raised $12 million. MoreAbilTo, a behavioral health startup, raised $12 million. MoreSOLS, maker of 3D printed insoles, raised $11.1 million. MorePinpointCare, which offers its web-based program that helps doctors create, customize, and track care plans for patients, raised $11 million. MoreTytoCare, a digital health device company, raised $11 million. MoreInteraXon, which offers a smartphone-connected brainwave sensing device, raised $11 million. MorePager, which offers an app consumers can use to request in-person physician house calls, raised $10.4 million. MoreDatu Health, which offers a health monitoring platform that allows providers to keep track of patients, raised $10 million. MorePatientPop, which offers a marketing service that doctors can use to grow their practice, raised $10 million. MoreLumo Bodytech, which offers posture and activity tracking devices, raised $10 million. MoreSenseonics, which offers continuous glucose monitor device maker, raised $10 million. MoreDocPlanner, which offers a service that helps consumers find and book appointments with providers, raised $10 million. MoreVoalte, which offers a suite of smartphone-based communication tools to nurses and other hospital caregivers, raised $10 million. MoreSano Intelligence, which is quietly developing a health-sensing wearable, raised $10.25 million. MoreGNS Healthcare, which has developed an analytics tool for precision medicine and population health, raised $10 million. MoreMazlo, which has developed an online behavior change coaching service, raised $10 million. More Deals between $5 million and $10 million: SwipeSense, a smart hand hygiene sensor-maker, raised $9.6 million. MoreTalkspace, which offers therapy sessions via the web and mobile devices, raised $9.5 million. MoreDynoSense, which has developed a mobile-enabled sensor that tracks a number of vital signs and other health biometrics, raised $9.4 million. MoreMyTime, a general appointment booking service, raised $9.25 million. MoremeQuilibrium, which has developed a mobile stress management program, raised $9 million. MoreAtheer Labs, maker of an augmented reality headset that it is working to get into the hands of clinicians, raised $8.8 million. MoreJoyable, which offers an online cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and coaching program for social anxiety, raised $8 million. MorePatientPing, a company that alerts doctors when patients are admitted elsewhere, raises $8 million. MoreInfoBionic, a remote patient monitoring comapny, raised $8 million. MoreInformed Data Systems, which developed a One Drop mobile diabetes management platform, raised $8 million. MoreDigiSight Technologies, a California-based company currently focused on mobile apps for ophthalmology, raised $7.8 million. MoreSocialWellth, maker of white label digital health and wellness offerings for payers, providers, and employers, raised $7.5 million. MoreClue, which has developed a women's health app, raised $7 million. MoreSleepace, which has developed a sleep tracking device, raised $7 million. MoreOwlet Baby Care, a tech startup developing smart socks for monitoring infants' vital signs, raised $7 million. MoreVoalte, which offers a suite of smartphone-based communication tools to nurses and other hospital caregivers, raised $7 million. MorePeak, a brain training app maker, raised $7 million. MoreHuman API, which offers providers an infrastructure they can use to create a health platform that enables a group of patients to share data with their caregivers, raised $6.6 million. MoreIcebreaker Health, a relatively new telemedicine startup, raised $6.6 million. MoreScience 37, a mobile clinical trials company, raised $6.5 million. MoreSmart Vision Labs, which has developed a smartphone-based autorefractor for vision testing, raised $6.1 million. MoreZest Health, a company that helps people view and understand their health benefits, raised $6 million. MoreMediSafe, a medication adherence app company, raised $6 million. MoreLemonade Lab, a fitness tracking company, raised $5.8 million. MoreRxWiki, which offers a medication encyclopedia written and edited by pharmacists as well as tools to help community pharmacists to communicate with consumers, raised $5.7 million. MoreKindara, which offers fertility tracking tools, raised $5.3 million. MoreFigure 1, which offers a photo sharing app for doctors, raised $5 million. MoreMyHealthTeams, which offers niche social network for people with various medical conditions, raised $5 million. MoreTinyRx, a prescription delivery service, raised $5 million. MoreCliniCloud, a smartphone connected medical kit company, raised $5 million. MoreYour.MD, which has developed a health management app that includes a symptom checker, raised $5 million. MoreModernizing Medicine, maker of a mobile-based electronic health record, raised $5 million. MoreFitmob, a fitness app company, raised $5 million. MoreTrialbee, a clinical trial recruitment companyl, raised $5 million. MoreHeal, which has developed an app that helps people request a doctor to visit their house, raised $5 million. MoreDoctena, a mobile appointment booking service based in Luxembourg, raised $5 million. More Deals between $1 million and $5 million: mySugr, a diabetes app company, raised $4.8 million. MoreSkulpt, which has developed a smartphone-connected device that measures a user's body fat percentage  and muscle quality, raised $4.1 million. MorePicwell, which helps consumers choose a health plan, raised $4 million. MoreSproutling, a company that has developed a wearable sleep sensor for babies, raised $4 million. MoreCaremerge, makers of a care coordination software for seniors in assisted living facilities, raised $4 million. MoreHeal, which has developed an app that helps people send a doctor to their house, raised $3.7 million. MoreDispatch Health, which developed a doctor house call service, raised $3.6 million. MoreBaseHealth, a health data platform company, raised $3.6 million. MoreRedox, a company founded by former Epic engineers that makes an API for integrating software with EHRs, raised $3.5 million. MoreBright.md, a telemedicine company for non-acute care that uses a software called SmartExam to minimize the time required of its physicians, raised $3.5 million. MoreShopWell, which offers a nutrition app, raised $3.4 million. MoreSkinVision, an Amsterdam-based dermatology app company, raised $3.4 million. MoreGauss Surgical, a company that offers surgeons and their teams FDA-cleared apps that help track blood loss, raised $3.3 million. MoreLeaf Healthcare, a wireless patient monitoring company, raised $3.3 million. MoreMedZed, which offers a doctor house call service that allows providers to remotely connect with their patients with the help of a caregiver, raised $3.2 million. MoreOvuline, a women’s health app provider, raised $3.2 million. MoreLyra Health, which is developing a platform to identify people with behavioral health conditions, raised $3.1 million. MoreSolera Health, which offers a software as a service platform for managing chronic disease prevention programs, raised $3 million. MoreTuringSense, a company currently developing a wearable sensor for tennis players, raised $3 million. MoreLimelight Health, which has developed a white-labeled health insurance quoting app, raised $3 million. MoreAdherium Limited, a New Zealand company working on a smart inhaler, raised $25.6 million. MoreMedfusion, a patient portal company that was acquired by Intuit and then bought back again by its original owner, raised $3 million. MoreMonica Healthcare, a UK-based fetal monitor maker, raised $3 million. MoreCircle Medical, which has developed a doctor house call app, raised $2.9 million. MoreAva, a fertility tracking system company, raised $2.6 million. MoreValencell, which embeds its health and medical sensors in some wearable devices, most notably in sensor-equipped headphones, raised $2.6 million. MoreePatientFinder, a clinical trial recruitment company, raised $2.6 million. MoreSeamless Medical Systems, which has developed a digital patient registration offering, raised $2.5 million. MoreLabStyle Innovations, maker of a smartphone-connected glucometer called Dario, raised $2.5 million. MoreBrainScope, which has developed mobile, non-invasive devices that help medical professionals assess Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), raised $2.5 million. MoreAyogo, which has developed a patient engagement offering, raised $2.5 million. MoreConversa Health, which makes a digital patient engagement platform, raised $2.5 million. MoreKlara, a dermatology remote care company, raised $2.5 million. MoreSkipta, which oversees social media communities for medical specialties, raised $2.5 million. MoreSmartlink Mobile Systems, a patient engagement company, raised $2.5 million. MoreHealth Gorilla, a company that just released a clinical communication platform, raised $2.4 million. MoreWellbe, which offers a web-based patient coordination software, raised $2.4 million. MoreSoloHealth, a health kiosk company, raised $2.4 million. MoreVirtuagym, a mobile fitness coaching system, raised $2.3 million. MoreEligible, which offers an API that other health tech companies use to add a streamlined insurance eligibility check feature for doctors and patients, raised $2.3 million. MoreChiron Health, a telemedicine company, raised $2.3 million. MoreSherpaa, a digital healthcare service, raised $2.25 million. MoreSense.ly, a "virtual nurse" company that spun out of mobile operator Orange in 2013, raised $2.2 million. MoreHealthCrowd, a patient outreach business, raised $2.1 million. MoreMedical Memory, which offers a tablet-based app that records office visits so that patients can have access to post-discharge instructions online, raised $2.1 million. MoreThe Right Place, a care coordination company, raised $2 million. MoreCurely, which has developed a telehealth app that allows patients to ask physicians health and wellness questions, raised $2 million. Moredrchrono, which offers a mobile EHR, raised $2 million. MoreMocaCare, which has developed a device that tracks cardiovascular health, raised $2 million. MoreJoyable, a social anxiety coaching program, raised $2 million. MoreClue, a women’s health company, raised $2 million. MoreEko Devices, smartphone-enabled stethoscope company, raised $2 million. MoreSmartSpot, which has developed an interactive video-based offering for gyms that instructs members how to work out properly, raised $1.85 million. More1DocWay, a telepsychiatry network, raised $1.7 million. MoremPulse Mobile, which offers secure messaging tools to healthcare companies, raised $1.7 million. MoreChartSpan, a mobile PHR company, raised $1.7 million. MoreForce Therapeutics, a mobile-based physical therapy offering, raised $1.7 million. MoreCortrium, a connected health tracking company, raised $1.6 million. MoreKura MD, a telehealth company, raised $1.5 million. MoreSavonix, a new startup working on creating a neurocognitive assessment app, raised $1.5 million. MoreMoff, a fitness wearable maker, raised $1.3 million. MoreHello Heart, a health app maker, raised $1.3 million. MorePediaQ, an app-based pediatric house call service, raised $1.2 million. MoreCareDox, a mobile medical record system, raised $1.2 million. MoreIagnosis, parent company of virtual visit skin care company DermatologistOnCall, raised $1.2 million. MoreSeamlessMD, a company that has developed an engagement tool for surgery patients, raised $1.1 million. MorePacify, a telehealth startup, raised $1.1 million. MoreiGetBetter, a company that aims to reduce hospital readmissions through remote patient monitoring and post-discharge patient engagement, raised $1.1 million. MoreeVisit, a telehealth company, raised $1 million. MoreCarePredict, a company focused on aging in place technology service that helps caregivers keep tabs on the wellbeing of older family members, raised $1 million. MoreCareLinx, which offers a service to connect seniors with caregivers, raised an additional $1 million. MoreMedaCheck, a company that sells a dedicated medication reminder tablet for seniors, raised $1.1 million. MoreGozio Health, which offers a patient-facing indoor wayfinding app to hospitals, raised $1 million. MoreLift Digital, which offers a live, online video-based fitness training program, raised $1 million. MoreHealth Recovery Solutions, a patient engagement company, raised $1 million. MoreTalkspace, which offers therapy sessions via the web and mobile devices, raised $1 million. More Deals under $1 million and undisclosed: Carre Technologies, which makes health-sensing apparel for medical monitoring, raised about $960,000. MoreVitalMedicals, a Google Glass app maker, raised $925,000. MoreCareDox, a mobile medical record system, raised $900,000. MoreSkyMD, which has developed a telemedicine service for providers to use with their patients, raised $800,000. MoreConceivable, a women’s health app maker, has raised $800,000. MorePear Sports, an activity tracking and audio coaching company, raised $821,000. MoreElli Health, a symptom checker and virtual visit service, raised $774,000. MoremyHealthPal, a Parkinson’s monitoring app, raised $744,000. MoreOrb Health, a health data exchange program, raised $650,000. MoreMedocity care coordination company raised $650,000. MoreID Guardian, which developed a health-sensing teddy bear, raised $400,000. BurstIQ, a data aggregation company, raised $250,000. MoreChrono Therapeutics, a company working on a new wearable for smoking cessation and drug delivery, raised $100,000. MoreCox Enterprises invested in Rimidi, which has developed diabetes management and population health software. MoreHospital Corporation of America (HCA) invested in Sharecare, the health and wellness engagement platform founded by WebMD founder Jeff Arnold and television personality Dr. Mehmet Oz,  to create new patient engagement offerings. MoreFairview Health invested in telemedicine company Zipnosis. MoreRock Health has invested in three companies: telepsychiatry service 1DocWay, provider analytics company Arsenal Health, and wearable technology maker Caeden. More European investors have invested in dacadoo, which offers an employee wellness platform. MoreMcKesson Ventures invested in ClearCare for its cloud-based home care platform. MoreThiel Foundation's Breakout Labs invested in stress tracking company Neumitra. More5AM Ventures invested in for drug-software combo products. More Teva Pharmaceutica reportedly invested in American Well for its video visits service. More
By Aditi Pai | 01:15 pm | December 17, 2015
The global wearable device market will ship 214 million units in 2019, up from the 80 million units expected to ship this year, according to a report from research firm IDC.
By Aditi Pai | 11:04 am | December 17, 2015
Baltimore, Maryland-based WellDoc has raised $22 million in a round led by Samsung Ventures and Merck Global Health Innovation (GHI) Fund with participation from Adage Capital Management, Excel Venture Management, Alexandria Venture Investments and Hudson River Capital Partners.
By Aditi Pai | 02:10 pm | December 16, 2015
Redwood City, California-based smartwatch company Pebble has launched a new app for its devices, called Pebble Health.
By Aditi Pai | 01:29 pm | December 16, 2015
Foster City-based Oration has launched its mobile offering that helps employees save money on prescriptions.
By Aditi Pai | 11:37 am | December 16, 2015
Pairing contextual texts and activity tracking leads to people moving more, according to a small study of 48 outpatients of an academic CVD prevention center in Baltimore, Maryland that was published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
By Aditi Pai | 09:27 am | December 16, 2015
Although the activity tracking and consumer health market is growing more crowded every day, Casper de Clercq, an investor recently promoted to general partner at Norwest Venture Partners, said in the future it will be medical-focused, not consumer, wearable companies that offer the better return on investment.
By Aditi Pai | 03:46 pm | December 15, 2015
Montreal, Canada-based Carre Technologies, which does business as Hexoskin, has raised about $960,000 ($1.
By Aditi Pai | 02:24 pm | December 15, 2015
China-based Viatom Technologies has received FDA 510(k) clearance for Checkme Pro, a connected medical device that tracks a number of vital signs, according to Medgadget.
By Aditi Pai | 01:01 pm | December 15, 2015
Austin, Texas-based Chiron Health has raised $2.