News

Employee wellness curation platform Jiff raised $23.

RunKeeper's current Spotify integration.

The Apple Watch had its first software update this week, and it did include some minor updates to the health tracking features.

San Francisco-based Stride Health has raised $13 million in a round led by Venrock with participation from Fidelity Biosciences and existing investor NEA, according to a post from TechCrunch.

Southern New Jersey's MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper is setting up a program for 30 of its breast cancer patients that equips them with Apple Watches to help them self-manage their treatment as well as stay better connected to their care team and each other.

Swedish clinical trial recruitment company Trialbee has raised $5 million in first-round funding from existing investors Industrifonden and Briban Invest.

Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) has announced that they will offer an imaging app, called ImageInbox, to their patients.

Headlines during the first six months of 2015 touted increasing provider acceptance of patient generated health data, new remote care reimbursement codes, the rise of the smartwatch thanks to a certain major consumer electronics company, a cooling digital health investment trend, notable mergers and acquisitions and much, much more.

Florida Hospital, a 2,200-bed acute-care medical facility and a member of Adventist Health System, will begin testing a shoe-based wearable sensor from Seattle-based Reflx labs to assist in pediatric rehabilitation.

Jawbone's UP2 device Some 20 percent of investors said they expect Jawbone to go public this year, according to a Rock Health survey of 43 investors.