Brian Dolan

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.

Aetna has agreed to acquire Chicago-based bswift, which offers a technology platform that powers health insurance exchanges, for approximately $400 million.

At Partners HealthCare's Connected Health Symposium last week, Beth Israel Deaconess CIO and SVP Dr.

San Francisco-based mobile-enabled health coaching services company Vida has raised $5 million in its first round of funding from Aspect Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Yahoo Co-Founder Jerry Yang, Signia Venture Partners, The Valley Fund, Yahoo Chairman Maynard Webb, Silicon Valley Bank's Kevin Scott, and Skip Battle.

A state-side example of video comms with MDs: Verizon Wireless Virtual Visits Around 4.

One of the largest not-for-profit healthcare systems in the US, CHE Trinity Health has chosen Sharecare, the company founded by WebMD founder Jeff Arnold and television personality Dr.

New York City-based Phreesia, which offers a tablet-based patient check-in and payment service to healthcare providers, has raised $30 million in funding led by private equity firm LLR Partners.

Bethesda, Maryland-based cellular-enabled blood glucose meter company Telcare has raised $32.

For the second time since it announced its HealthKit plans, Apple has made a mistake related to blood glucose measurement units.