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The regulatory changes also come alongside Pre-Cert Program updates and roughly a dozen noteworthy digital health approvals.

Companies are using blockchain-backed currencies to motivate users to share data, workout and stay sober. 

Yesterday, Shanghai-based insurtech startup CareVoice (who launched their AI voice-based virtual health assistant for insurers and employers in Greater China in May 2018) announced the official launch of StartupCare, the first health benefit and insurance for startups in China.

Emily Vaughn, product development director of Change Healthcare, and Tim Dunlevy, VP of engineering at PokitDok, discuss first use cases and applications for blockchain as well as the process of going from private to public blockchain networks.

Abel Kho, director of the Center for Health Information Partnerships at Northwestern University and co-founder of Health Data Link, says that addressing the fragmentation of data in healthcare is needed to make the most of blockchain technology.

Headlines also highlighted changes to Wear OS and designs for sensor-laden smart diapers.

A look back at a year of healthcare news out of Cupertino.

The HeartGuide watch uses a flexible synthetic band to inflate and maintain its shape to comfortably take an oscillometric wrist blood pressure on the fly.

Amazon's 2018 news also included new hires, machine learning tools for healthcare organizations and more. 

Patient engagement, artificial intelligence, telemedicine, virtual reality, and more trends dominated the provider headlines.