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Last week, JAMA Internal Medicine published a two-page research letter by the Rand Corporation that played into a national conversation about the efficacy of telemedicine -- specifically Teladoc, a company which is both about to IPO and embroiled in a potentially precedent-setting legal battle with its home state of Texas over whether the Texas Medical Board has the right to regulate the practice of telemedicine.

Meal Snap app Google has unveiled a new project, called Im2Calories, which will use deep learning algorithms to estimate how many calories are in food, based on a photo of the meal, according to a report from Popular Science.

The Dexcom Follow Android App Diabetes management software company Glooko will add its first two continuous glucose monitor and pump integrations into its offering: Dexcom's G4 CGM and Insulet's OmniPod Insulin Management System.

Medtronic's Guardian Mobile CGM app, yet to be released in the US.

Manchester, New Hampshire-based virtual pharmacy PillPack has raised $50 million in a round led by CRV with participation from Accel Partners, Atlas Venture, Menlo Ventures, and SherpaVentures.

New York City-based accelerator Startup Health has added 12 more companies to its program.

New York City-based Cohero Health has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its mobile connected spirometer.

Health data platform company BaseHealth raised $3.

A new survey of more than 1,500 teenagers in the US by the Center on Media and Human Development at Northwestern University shows that a majority of teenagers go online to look for health information, though considerably fewer use digital health tools or wearables.

Fitbit Surge San Francisco-based Fitbit disclosed in an amended SEC filing that it plans to price its shares between $14 to $16 and raise up to $358 million in its imminent IPO.