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Google rumored to be working on wearable coach.

San Diego-based GreatCall — an old guard digital health company which started out making smartphones for seniors in 2006 but now offers a suite of connected safety products and services for aging in place individuals — has been acquired by retail chain Best Buy for $800 million.

Lonnie Rae Kurlander has seen the healthcare system from a lot of angles: as a doctor-in-training, as a health tech CEO, and twice as a patient with a serious condition — once with a broken hip in a city far from home, and once with a mystery disease that left her too weak to walk or think.

Instant Blood Pressure, an app from Aura Labs, has been removed from the app store for more than two years.

The astronauts currently on the International Space Station rely on telemedicine for everything from coughs to bruises.

Telemedicine options for employers in the United States are approaching ubiquity — a National Business Group on Health survey last year found that 96 percent of employers planned to offer telemedicine services to employees this year.

San Francisco-based Hinge Health, which makes a digital health platform for musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions, has raised $26 million in a Series B round led by Insight Venture Partners.

Online AI-powered healthcare chatbot Buoy has announced a new, deep partnership with Boston Children’s Hospital.

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iRhythm Technologies reported a promising second quarter from a financial standpoint, citing a revenue of $35.