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Leaf Healthcare, Pleasanton, California-based wireless patient monitoring company, has raised $3.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has charged the marketers of a vision improvement app, called UltimEyes, with deceptively claiming they their program was scientifically proven to improve the user's eye sight.

In its most recent S Health app update, Samsung added support for all Samsung smartphones, starting with the Galaxy S3.

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.

Boca Raton, Florida-based Modernizing Medicine has raised $38 million in equity, security and options, according to an SEC filing.

Google subsidiary Alphabet, has hired Dr.

Two researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have developed a device that can return a cancer diagnosis in an hour, without an invasive biopsy, using a smartphone.

Venice, California-based Headspace has raised $34 million for a meditation app that aims to help users with stress, focus, and anxiety, according to an SEC filing.

There are more than twice as many health apps as there were in 2013, but whether those apps are better tools for doctors and patients is a mixed bag: while apps today are more likely than two years ago to connect to another device or wearable and more likely to connect to social media, they are no more likely to connect to provider systems or to have more than one function, according to a new report from IMS Health.

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