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A retrospective matched-pair cohort study of 348 patients in Partners HealthCare's Boston-area hospitals shows that remote monitoring in congestive heart failure patients can reduce 120-day hospitalizations and mortality.

Sarasota, Florida-based Voalte, which offers a suite of smartphone-based communication tools to nurses and other hospital caregivers, has raised $10 million, according to an SEC filing.

Colorado startup BurstIQ has raised $250,000 from Colorado Springs-based PV Ventures for its cloud-based data aggregation platform for providers and patients.

Austin, Texas-based Motion Computing, a longtime player in the semi-rugged tablet space that served the healthcare industry among others, has been acquired by rugged tablet PC maker Xplore, also based in Austin.

Patients are overwhelmingly satisfied with dermatology consults via Google Glass, even preferring them to consultations over the phone, according to a feasibility study recently published in JAMA dermatology.

The CS Mott Children's Hospital at the University of Michigan is launching a new telemedicine program to help reduce childhood obesity.

San Francisco-based general appointment booking service MyTime raised $9.

Sotera Wireless's ViSi Mobile monitor.

Two of the biggest medical journals in the world have taken up some big picture mobile health questions this week: How are patients to know which medical apps work out of the sea of available options, and should healthy patients be making use of mobile health apps and devices at all? The first question is the subject of a recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, while the second is tackled in a point-counterpoint discussion in the British Medical Journal.

American Well The number of people using home health technologies will increase from 14.