Google has filed another interesting healthcare-related patent, a mechanism that could detect when a patient is eating and issue a contextual reminder to take a medication.
Google Life Sciences has finally gotten its new name as an independent company under the aegis of Alphabet: Verily.
San Francisco-based AliveCor, which offers smartphone-enabled ECG devices, has announced former Google SVP Vic Gundotra as its new CEO.
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The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), which puts on the massive CES event in Las Vegas every January, just published a set of voluntary guidelines for how technology companies should approach privacy and security for personal wellness data collected by wearable devices and other connected wellness devices.
Google subsidiary Alphabet, has hired Dr.
An Oscar-branded Misfit Flash device.
Google and Novartis are working on two smart contact lenses, and news broke this week about both of them: A new patent application sheds light on how Google might power its glucose-sensing contact lens, just a week after partner Novartis told a Swiss newspaper it was on track for human trials in 2016 of an autofocus lens for presbyopia patients.
Sanofi's IBG Star connected glucometer.
Google Flu Trends, as a website open to the general public, has shut down.
The old Dexcom Share, with charging cradle.