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By Jonah Comstock | 11:41 am | July 16, 2014
Healthcare is falling behind other industries in prioritizing and attending to security concerns, according to a new report from security company ForeScout based on a survey conducted by IDG Connect.
By Jonah Comstock | 11:26 am | July 16, 2014
Australian company dorsaVi has received FDA clearance for its ViMove sensor system.
By Jonah Comstock | 10:20 am | July 15, 2014
The corporate wellness market is an increasingly big opportunity for activity trackers like Fitbit, but data is just now starting to come in about how much those programs really help corporations.
By Jonah Comstock | 07:05 am | July 15, 2014
Just seven months after announcing its ambitious contact lens program, Google has announced a partnership with Novartis eye care division Alcon to license its still-largely-theoretical "smart lens" to the Swiss pharma company.
By Jonah Comstock | 11:57 am | July 14, 2014
The new Kinect, the second generation of Microsoft's motion capture camera technology, has been making healthcare headlines for nearly a year now as a few select companies were able to tinker with prototypes.
By Jonah Comstock | 11:37 am | July 14, 2014
When it comes to digital health, pharmaceutical companies tend to be slow and cautious, because of the onerous risks they face from the FDA should they improperly market a drug via the internet or mobile channels.
By Jonah Comstock | 10:00 am | July 10, 2014
Misfit Wearables, the company behind the Misfit Shine activity tracker, has upped its sleep tracking game, entering into a partnership with Beddit, the Helsinki, Finland-based mattress sensor startup.
By Jonah Comstock | 09:47 am | July 10, 2014
An interactive text-message based care management system was able to create a 40 percent improvement in appointment adherence and modest improvement in medication and care plan adherence, according to new data from New York City-based Sense Health's randomized control trial with Montefiore Medical Center.
By Jonah Comstock | 09:38 am | July 09, 2014
Washington, DC-based modus health, a spin-off of a prosthesis company called Orthocare Innovations, has launched with the goal of creating a wearable activity tracker for clinical use.
By Jonah Comstock | 06:00 am | July 09, 2014
AdhereTech's first generation smart pill bottle.