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By Aditi Pai | 10:29 am | April 15, 2015
Sunrise, Florida-based MDLive, which offers patient-to-physician remote visits via mobile devices, has partnered with Microsoft to deliver telehealth services through Microsoft's Skype for Business offering.
By Jonah Comstock | 09:56 am | April 15, 2015
Samsung S Health apps Partners HealthCare has announced a partnership with Samsung Electronics to co-develop mobile health solutions.
By Jonah Comstock | 09:13 am | April 15, 2015
Intelesens's Zensor device.
By Aditi Pai | 09:03 am | April 15, 2015
Just two days after Jawbone announced that it will finally ship its heart rate tracking wearable, UP3, even though the tracker will not be waterproof as initially advertised, an anonymous source told the Wall Street Journal that American Express is working with Jawbone to add payment features to a future wearable.
By Jonah Comstock | 12:54 pm | April 14, 2015
Value-based care, patient engagement, and data analytics are three of the biggest trends in healthcare, according to a panel of health investors that spoke at HIMSS 2015 in Chicago this week.
By Aditi Pai | 12:26 pm | April 14, 2015
Apple announced that ResearchKit, its open source platform that helps researchers build medical apps and recruit patients for smartphone-based clinical studies, is now open researchers and developers.
By Aditi Pai | 12:16 pm | April 14, 2015
WebMD's Apple Watch app The Apple Watch is set to launch in just a few days.
By Jonah Comstock | 12:05 pm | April 14, 2015
IBM Watson has taken a giant step deeper into the healthcare industry with the formation of a new business unit called Watson Health and a new cloud offering called the Watson Health Cloud.
By Aditi Pai | 10:48 am | April 14, 2015
Fitbit Surge Sixty million US households will own at least one connected fitness tracker by the end of 2019, according to a report from research firm Parks Associates.
By Jonah Comstock | 09:27 am | April 14, 2015
Nearly a third of healthcare providers offer organization-specific apps for their patients, according to a small survey of healthcare providers conducted by HIMSS.