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MD Revolution has raised $23 million in a round co-led by Chicago-based Jump Capital and an undisclosed global healthcare technology company for its mobile chronic care management system.

The new Hacking Medicine Institute, a nonprofit that spun out of MIT this past summer, is launching the latest initiative to produce reviews of mobile health apps and digital health tools.

LifeMap Solutions, the San Jose-California startup behind the ResearchKit app Asthma Health, has launched its second app, COPD Navigator, for free in the app store.

What if wearables like Fitbits and the Apple Watch represent the infancy of on-body health sensors, something we'll one day look back on the way we now look at the clunky, boxy mobile phones of the 1980s? A number of researchers are working on ultrathin, flexible sensors that could be applied to the skin like smart tattoos, or even applied to the surface of organs inside the body to continually monitor vital signs or to deliver time-released drugs.

Seamless Medical Systems, which has developed a digital patient registration offering (not to be confused with pre- and post-op patient engagement tool SeamlessMD) raised $2.

Community Health Systems, the largest for-profit health system in the United States, has tapped American Well to bring remote visit services to its primary care patients.

In the past week, two new ResearchKit studies have launched.

It's hard to imagine a better blend of high tech and low tech than an iPhone stuck to the bottom of a plastic bucket.

The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, a division of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded a group of researchers from UCLA and USC $6 million to develop technology designed for children that predicts their asthma attacks.

The Apple Watch pilot that the MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper announced last May finally launched today.