Jonah Comstock

Medtronic has received FDA clearance for a mobile app that allows patients to remotely forward data from their pacemakers with their physicians.

Campbell, California-based TuringSense has raised $3 million in seed funding.

In advance of the start of the holiday shopping season, Argus Insights has released a report on consumer perception and demand for wearables, based on the research firm's analysis of 6,000 global reviews and social media conversations.

Health app maker Azumio has partnered with Stanford University to make deidentified, anonymized data from a cohort of 5 million users available for research purposes.

Dispatch Health is adding an iOS app to its mobile house call service, which currently offers its service through local municipal services providers.

Visible Patient, a French company that makes 3D models of human organs to assist surgeons, has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its VP Planning Software Suite.

DigiSight Technologies has launched a new version of its smartphone-based eyesight test and a new offering called Scope, a hardware-software combined system that allows a medical professional to use the smartphone camera to photograph the back and front of the patient's eye.

Reducing readmissions is an oft-repeated goal as the healthcare industry transitions from fee-for-service to value-based care.

Fossil Group will buy wearables company Misfit for $260 million, the companies announced last night.

Omada Health, the digital health company that's created a remote, digital version of the Diabetes Prevention Program, has released data from a cohort of 500 Medicare Advantage beneficiaries with an average age of 70.