Consumer

Self-tracking data from wearable devices has gradually become important to your doctors, your employer, and your health insurer.

This week MobiHealthNews once again rounded up an up-to-date list of health and wellness apps that connect to Apple's HealthKit, a health and fitness data exchange that makes it easier for iOS apps to share data with each other.

At the Samsung Developer's conference this week, Samsung released the reference design for its wristworn wearable, called Simband, to developers.

At the Samsung Developer Conference this week in San Francisco, the South Korean consumer electronics giant revealed much more about its digital health plans, including the names of 24 partners it has been working with -- a dozen commercial partners and a dozen research partners.

The founders of Kobo, an eReader device company that rivaled Amazon's Kindle, have raised $4 million in seed funding for their next venture: Toronto-based mobile health startup League.

Thirteen percent of consumers plan to purchase a health or fitness wearable device within the next year, according to a survey of 2,000 consumers from Acquity Group, a subsidiary of Accenture.

Dublin, Ohio-based HealthSpot, which offers telemedicine kiosks for workplace and retail locations, has raised an undisclosed sum from Xerox.

There's been a lot of talk lately about integrating activity data collected by devices like the Fitbit or the Misfit Shine into the clinical workflow, but there haven't been too many concrete examples yet.

Shelton, Connecticut-based Fitlinxx, maker of the B-to-B activity tracker Pebble, has announced its newest device, a bandaid-like heart rate tracker, called AmpStrip.

Pleasanton, California-based Spirometrix, a company working on a breath analysis sensor for early detection and treatment of asthma and COPD, has raised $8.