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Eighty percent of smartphone users are interested in using their smartphones to interact with health care providers, according to a FICO survey of 2,239 adult smartphone users from the UK, Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Russia, Turkey, and the United States.
Microsoft's rumored smartwatch is said to look like a thinner Nike+ FuelBand
Microsoft plans to release its own smartwatch with 11 sensors as soon as October, according to tech news site Tom's Hardware.
Jonathan Jagoda presented the compact at ATA 2014 in Baltimore in May.
MyNetDiary's popular food tracking app
When it comes to weight loss, a simple food tracking application like MyNetDiary or MyFitnessPal might be a much better investment than $100 Fitbit or Jawbone device, at least according to newly released data from the Activity Exchange, a startup that aggregates health tracking data for payers, employers, and providers.
San Francisco-based patient education tool BetterDoctor raised $10 million, according to an SEC filing.
An estimated 330 million smartwatches will ship worldwide by 2018, up from less than 4 million in 2013, according to a recent projection from research firm ON World.
Aetna will soon launch a new mobile-based offering, called NeoCare, for members who are new parents with infants in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs).
The most frequent user of health and fitness apps for iPhones are mostly mothers between the ages of 25 and 54 who are sports fans and who generally lead healthy lifestyles, according to a recent study that tracked 6,800 health and fitness apps and about 100,000 people who used them.
Paris-based KelDoc, an doctor appointment booking app, raised $1.
The updated Fitbit app tracks frequency of exercise on a calendar.