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At the Health 2.

It can be a little hard to keep track of exactly what Palo Alto-based HealthTap does these days.

Humana has partnered with Kurbo Health, which offers a mobile-enabled program aimed at preventing childhood obesity, to offer its employer customers the option to add a 12-month subscription of Kurbo Health as a wellness benefit for their employees.

Some 80 percent of people were more motivated to manage their health after using an activity tracker, according to a randomized control trial from March 2014 of 600 patients who are pre-diabetic and morbidly obese.

The HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) recently released a whitepaper, based on a workshop held last April, on designing telehealth and remote visits for consumers.

Lumity, a data-driven benefits management company, has raised $14 million.

An Oscar-branded Misfit Flash device.

Global human resources company Mercer has launched an employee wellness platform, called Health Pathfinder by Mercer, which is powered by Jiff.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota has brought on San Francisco-based Doctor on Demand as the health insurer's new preferred telehealth provider.

According to non-profit association National Business Group on Health, next year significantly more large employers will offer telehealth services to their employees than this year.