HealthLoop

The resulting integrated platform will be known as “GetWell Loop,” and will include support for care pathways, remote patient monitoring, virtual check-ins and other capabilities.

Just last week, the Consumer Electronics Association released guidelines about privacy policies for health and fitness devices.

HealthLoop, the Mountain View, California-based doctor-patient communication startup, is looking for ways to make patient engagement pay.

MIEC, an Oakland, California-based medical malpractice insurer, has teamed up with HealthLoop to turn the startup's mobile and web-based communication platform toward a new use-case: decreasing the number of malpractice claims brought against a doctor or hospital.

The key to cracking patient engagement isn't better kinds of technology, it's understanding patients better.