Apple HealthKit

Google has released the fitness app for Android devices it announced in June, called Google Fit.

One of the largest not-for-profit healthcare systems in the US, CHE Trinity Health has chosen Sharecare, the company founded by WebMD founder Jeff Arnold and television personality Dr.

For the second time since it announced its HealthKit plans, Apple has made a mistake related to blood glucose measurement units.

Some industry stakeholders from providers to investors to consumer device makers think something like Apple's HealthKit could be the catalyst that finally brings the patient -- and patient-generated data -- into the healthcare ecosystem in a way that electronic medical records have persistently failed to do.

Tel Aviv, Israel and Palo Alto, California-based Hello Doctor has raised $700,000, according to a report from VentureBeat.

Connected healthcare device sales will exceed $3 billion globally by 2019, according to a report from analysis firm Juniper Research.

Ever since Apple announced its HealthKit developer toolkit, which aggregates data from a number of different self-tracking apps and devices, it's been a foregone conclusion that Fitbit would be connected.

WebMD Healthy Target feature WebMD and Walgreens announced that they will each integrate some of the other's digital health services into their online and mobile offerings.

Along with the official launch of the new iOS 8 operating system yesterday, a large number of health and medical app developers intended to launch apps that integrated with Apple's HealthKit platform.

About a week ago Fitbit hired a lobbyist firm to represent its interests on the Hill, as the National Journal reported.