Google Fit

Aetna business unit iTriage has released data from a survey of 3,300 of its users -- a sample of individuals who, as iTriage users, have already adopted mobile health tools -- and found that only 48 percent of their iOS users use Apple Health.

Duke University and Ochsner Health System in Louisiana are two of the first hospitals to integrate with Apple HealthKit via Epic.

Samsung launched its open access development platform, which include SAMI on the software side and SimBand on the hardware side, last month.

Last week, Rich Wong, partner at investment firm Accel Partners, said he sees more potential for mobile health apps and devices built on Android platforms than Apple, according to a report from Venture Beat.

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

Google has acquired San Francisco-based Lift Labs, a company that is developing smart utensils for people with Parkinson’s and essential tremor.

Late last week the Financial Times (sub.

Google has released a preview software development kit (SDK) for Google Fit, the platform the company will launch later this year to help Android users aggregate data from fitness apps and devices.

Naperville, Illinois-based PhysIQ raised $4.

Once again, Google has captured the news cycle with the announcement of an ambitious, health-focused project.