Basis

Consumers have more discrete digital options than ever before.

The app offers 45-minute counseling sessions with trained (but unliscensed) mental health specialists for $35 per session. 

Although the activity tracking and consumer health market is growing more crowded every day, Casper de Clercq, an investor recently promoted to general partner at Norwest Venture Partners, said in the future it will be medical-focused, not consumer, wearable companies that offer the better return on investment.

Practice Fusion's Ryan Howard (right) and MobiHealthNews' Jonah Comstock at Health 2.

Intel's Basis Peak will now connect to Apple HealthKit and Google Fit, both exporting the data tracked by its wearable and importing a small amount of data from Apple HealthKit.

The VA Boston Healthcare System will launch a pilot using the Basis Peak wearable.

Thirteen percent of consumers plan to purchase a health or fitness wearable device within the next year, according to a survey of 2,000 consumers from Acquity Group, a subsidiary of Accenture.

Apple's big wearable announcement Tuesday was met with excitement by some and disappointment by others.