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By Jonah Comstock | 09:33 am | January 05, 2015
Funding by category, from Rock Health's report Seed investor Rock Health and digital health academy StartUp Health, two companies that track funding and other data points about digital health, are both reporting 2014 as a record-breaking funding year for digital health in multiple categories.
By Jonah Comstock | 07:27 am | December 23, 2014
Samsung Canada has partnered with Autism Speaks Canada to launch "Look At Me", an Android tablet app designed to help children with autism improve their eye contact and social skills.
By Jonah Comstock | 07:06 am | December 23, 2014
Sleep monitoring company Bam Labs raised $3.
By Jonah Comstock | 10:39 am | December 22, 2014
Vital Connect's HealthPatch, which partnered with LifeWatch last month Swiss remote cardiac monitoring company LifeWatch has received FDA 510(k) clearance for LifeWatch VSP (Vital Signs Patch), the company's adhesive patch for remote patient monitoring.
By Jonah Comstock | 01:56 pm | December 18, 2014
AliveCor launched its new third generation smartphone-connected EKG device, a model that is both slimmed down and considerably cheaper than its predecessors.
By Jonah Comstock | 08:12 am | December 18, 2014
A wearable device with an emergency button, from Lifecomm.
By Jonah Comstock | 04:00 am | December 18, 2014
First Opinion, a San Francisco-based telemedicine app maker, has raised $6 million from Polaris Ventures.
By Jonah Comstock | 10:27 am | December 17, 2014
Over the last two months, crowdfunding campaigns have launched for numerous smartwatches and fitness wearables, as well as a number of more health-specific devices.
By Jonah Comstock | 08:54 am | December 16, 2014
Ambre Health CTO and co-founder Brek Wilkins One of the biggest complaints about healthcare, one of the biggest pain points that digital technology promises to solve, is that data sits in silos, so that even if a piece of data could help a patient, it might not be in the hands of the doctor who needs to see it.