Pharma

Pfizer: Think patient-first when developing mobile health apps
By Jonah Comstock | 11:40 am | November 09, 2015
NYC-based pharma company Pfizer currently has 15 apps in the US iOS app store, ranging from a chapstick companion app to an app for people with kidney cancer.
FDA seeks lessons learned from remote clinical drug trials
By Jonah Comstock | 10:42 am | November 04, 2015
Exco InTouch's mobile clinical trial software.
5 companies breathing life into the connected inhaler space (and their pharma partners)
By Jonah Comstock | 12:20 pm | November 03, 2015
Over the last two years, big pharma has gotten behind the idea of smartphone-connected inhalers for asthma and COPD in a big way.
Invitation: MobiHealthNews Digital Health and Pharma Breakfast
By Brian Dolan | 07:52 am | November 02, 2015
At the mHealth Summit next week, MobiHealthNews is hosting a breakfast panel discussion: Digital Health's Disruption of Pharma.
AdhereTech launches new bottle, sees 20 percent adherence boost
By Jonah Comstock | 11:42 am | October 28, 2015
AdhereTech, the New York City-based smart pill bottle company, has begun shipping the generation 2 version of its bottle to pharma and provider customers.
Walgreen's Rite Aid purchase could bring new digital health partners
By Jonah Comstock | 10:34 am | October 28, 2015
Higi is one digital health company that has a relationship with Rite Aid.
RxWiki raises $5.7M to help pharmacists communicate with consumers
By Aditi Pai | 10:40 am | October 26, 2015
Austin, Texas-based RxWiki, which offers a medication encyclopedia written and edited by pharmacists as well as tools to help community pharmacists to communicate with consumers, has raised $5.
PatientSafe buys Merck's Vree Health to expand into home health
By Jonah Comstock | 11:08 am | October 21, 2015
San Diego, California-based PatientSafe Solutions has acquired all the assets of Merck subsidiary Vree Health for an undisclosed amount.
Science 37 raises $6.5 million for mobile remote clinical trial platform
By Jonah Comstock | 10:59 am | October 21, 2015
Los Angeles-based mobile clinical trials company Science 37 has raised $6.
Consumer genetics company 23andMe raises another $36M to close its $115M round
By Aditi Pai | 10:32 am | October 15, 2015
Mail-order personal genetics service and research company 23andMe has completed a $115 million in a round led by Fidelity Management and Research Company with participation from  Casdin Capital, WuXi Healthcare Ventures, and Xfund, as well as existing investors Illumina, New Enterprise Associates, MPM Capital, and Google Ventures.