Heather Mack
New York City-based Pager, which offers an app for on-demand house call services, has appointed Walter Jin as the company’s new CEO.
Diabetes management device maker Intuity Medical has raised another $15 million in Series C funding in a round led by PTV Healthcare Capital, new investors KCK Group, and affiliates of Luther King Capital Management.
Boston-based Rest Devices has announced a collaboration with Johnson & Johnson to develop a smart, personalized sleep coaching system for babies (and their parents, hovering over their crib with a smartphone).
The United States Department of Defense has tapped healthcare communication company Vocera Communications to deploy San Jose, California-based Vocera’s system in the Army’s Medical Command facilities around the world.
It’s been a busy week for Fitbit.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)’s rules to set limits on the monetary value of incentives employers can offer to employees in wellness programs will still stand, says a federal judge.
Venture capital firm Digitalis, which was founded last year and has offices in New York and California, has launched a $100 million fund to spur innovation in healthcare by investing in early and seed stage companies that leverage math, science and technology to address human health problems.
This year was a big one for digital health, with 2016 marking the beginning of the health sector’s “Moonshot Movement,” according to the year-end report from StartUp Health.
UnitedHealthcare’s wellness program Motion will soon offer participants the ability to use Fitbit’s Charge 2 to track activity metrics via a customized integration with Motion’s Frequency, Intensity and Tenacity (F.
Over the past year, MobiHealthNews has covered 36 devices that received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration.