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By Aditi Pai | 07:29 am | March 30, 2015
New York City and London-based myHealthPal, not to be confused with telehealth product HealthPAL, data platform MyFitnessPal, or Advocate Children's Hospital's app MyHealth Pal, has raised $744,000 (500,000 pounds) in a round led by Andrew MacKay (chairman of Yapp Brothers) and angel investor Will Armitage with participation from Proxy Ventures.
By Eric Wicklund | 09:10 am | March 27, 2015
Jonathan Leviss of AMC Health, which recently announced a major partnership with Qualcomm Life, sees a bright future for vital sign monitors in the home -- but not one old-fashioned symbol of the practicing physician
By Brian Dolan | 10:09 am | March 26, 2015
This afternoon -- in just minutes actually -- we'll be kicking off our next MobiHealthNews webinar: Digital health tools for physicians and nurses that fit their workflow.
By Jonah Comstock | 10:05 am | March 26, 2015
A new survey of 121 employers from Fidelity Investments and the National Business Group on Health shows that employer spending on incentive-based wellness programs is up an average of $100 per head over last year.
By Aditi Pai | 09:51 am | March 26, 2015
A majority of published text message interventions between 2009 and 2014 that addressed diabetes self-management, weight loss, physical activity, smoking cessation, and medication adherence were effective, according to a systematic review of reviews published in The Annual Review of Public Health.
By Aditi Pai | 08:59 am | March 26, 2015
Redwood, California-based health app maker Hello Heart has raised $1.
By Jonah Comstock | 12:37 pm | March 25, 2015
A screenshot from Share the Journey.
By Aditi Pai | 12:27 pm | March 25, 2015
Older, low-income women prefer to use digital health tools to a paper questionnaire when entering health data, according to a small study of 15 English and Spanish speaking women conducted by researchers from the University of California San Francisco.
By Jonah Comstock | 12:07 pm | March 25, 2015
Vital Art and Science, developers of myVisionTrack, a vision test service for patients with age-related macular degeneration or diabetic eye disease, has received a second FDA clearance for their platform, which includes an app and a provider dashboard.