Jonah Comstock

LifeNexus, a San Francisco-based startup looking to replace the traditional insurance card with either a smartcard or a mobile app, raised an additional $12.

A new app from Baylor University takes advantage of a smartphone's camera -- and of the smartphone owner's tendency to take a lot of pictures -- to potentially detect rare eye cancers in babies.

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While digital health funding in general has been growing enormously year-to-year, so too have strategic corporate investments, according to a new report by CB Insights.

It's that time of year again when all the major activity tracking device makers are announcing their next generation devices.

In May, Oscar, the New York-based individual-only insurance plan raised $80 million at close to a $1 billion valuation.

As telemedicine continues to grow in adoption and support, two of the most high profile telemedicine CEOs -- Teladoc's Jason Gorevic and Doctor on Demand's Adam Jackson -- shared the stage at the Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit with Dr.

HealthLoop, the Mountain View, California-based doctor-patient communication startup, is looking for ways to make patient engagement pay.

Andrew Conrad, the Google X researcher heading up the company's recently-announced ingestible-wearable sensor platform, has shared a good deal more information about the project in an interview with BackChannel.

Without specifically acknowledging criticisms about its accuracy, Google announced Friday it would be making some changes to Google Flu Trends, the service that uses search data to track and predict flu outcomes in the United States and around the world.