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The United States Patent Office has published a patent from Apple, filed December 18 of last year and not yet granted, for a "sunscreen detector" that could be incorporated into the Apple Watch or the iPhone and could even include augmented reality functionality.

Unlike other years, health wasn't a major focus at this year's WWDC Apple developer conference keynote — the talk didn't feature a single reference to HealthKit, CareKit, or ResearchKit, in fact.

Last week Medibio, a company focused on how biometric markers impact mental health, launched a new app that integrates with the Apple Watch.

Digital health was a topic of discussion this week at the Heart Rhythm Society Scientific Sessions in Boston as researchers and clinicians from around the world presented their most recent study results.

Trumbull, Connecticut-based FallCall Solutions has raised a sub-$1 million seed round from Connecticut Ventures to develop a pure software-based Personal Emergency Response System (PERS) for the Apple Watch.

Innovators compete.

Smartwatches were able to detect atrial fibrillation when paired with a deep neural network, according to a study published today in JAMA.

Apple has risen to the top of the competitive global wearables market, according to an IDC report that came out at the beginning of this month.

Over the weekend AliveCor announced that its technology was validated in two studies.

UnitedHealthcare has added a new wearable to its Motion employee wellness program.