Skip to main content

News

By Jonah Comstock | 02:53 pm | January 20, 2016
New York City-based Greatist, an online publication and media brand that focuses on health and wellness content, has raised $4.
By Aditi Pai | 11:43 am | January 20, 2016
Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo announced on Twitter yesterday -- by posting screen shots from his Apple Notes app -- that he is planning to launch a digital health company focused on fitness.
By Aditi Pai | 05:34 pm | January 19, 2016
Seattle, Washington-based EveryMove has shifted its business strategy and announced a new product that helps health plans with member engagement and behavior change, called Tandem.
By Jonah Comstock | 05:31 pm | January 19, 2016
The results are in for the Scripps Translational Science Institute’s Wired For Health study, and there’s no sugar-coating it: they’re disappointing for those working in digital health.
By Aditi Pai | 04:23 pm | January 19, 2016
It's been a few months since MobiHealthNews' last crowdfunding roundup and so there are several new digital health-focused campaigns on Kickstarter and Indiegogo.
By Jonah Comstock | 03:09 pm | January 19, 2016
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are developing tiny sensors that can monitor temperature and pressure within the skull and then dissolve harmlessly into the cranial fluid.
By Jonah Comstock | 01:16 pm | January 19, 2016
According to a just-published 2014 survey of 1,557 US physicians, there’s a big disconnect between support for telehealth and actual use of telehealth technologies.
By Jonah Comstock | 02:40 pm | January 18, 2016
A piece of long-awaited good news for fitness wearable maker Jawbone -- $165 million in new equity funding -- came with two more pieces of bad news: a subsequent drop in valuation and the departure of its recently hired president Sameer Samat, who returned to Google.
By Aditi Pai | 02:35 pm | January 18, 2016
Samsung may be launching a new fitness tracking smartwatch soon, according to Sammobile.
By Aditi Pai | 01:38 pm | January 18, 2016
About two weeks after reports of it shutting down surfaced, HealthSpot, which offered telemedicine kiosks for workplace and retail locations, has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation, according to a report in Columbia Business First.