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Smartphone ECG company AliveCor announced the publication of a long-awaited independent trial of the technology conducted by the Cleveland Clinic.

By The MobiHealthNews Team Digital health and fitness devices were, yet again, a dominant topic at CES 2015.

Cambridge, Massachusetts and Milan, Italy-based Empatica is crowdfunding a new wristworn tracker device, Embrace, which brings clinically validated tracking methods to the consumer market.

This year, at CES15, Intel unveiled Curie, a low-power module the size of a button that developers can use to build wearable devices.

San Francisco-based fitness app company fitmob raised $5 million from 112 investors -- $1 million of the funding came from Recruit Strategic Partners and was previously disclosed.

Adding educational health content to text reminders for influenza vaccines improves the effectiveness of those texts, when compared with written reminders and texts that do not offer extra health information, according to a study of 660 children published in the Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Minneapolis, Minnesota-based telemedicine company Zipnosis has received a "significant" strategic investment from Fairview Health, the hospital system the company has been working with the past several years.

Caremerge, makers of a care coordination software for seniors in assisted living facilities, raised $4 million in its first institutional round of funding.

Madison, Wisconsin-based Wellbe raised $2.

According to a recent survey of 24,000 consumers in 24 countries, about 8 percent now own wearable fitness monitors and 6 percent own a wearable health monitor.