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Running shoe company ASICS buys Runkeeper for $85 million
Boston-based FitnessKeeper, maker of the Runkeeper app, has announced an agreement to be acquired by Japanese apparel company ASICS for $85 million, MobiHealthNews has learned. "Partnering with ASICS...
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Small study finds text, email intervention reduces labor for CPAP coaching
There was a significant reduction in the time required to coach patients who used a telehealth program on continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy than those that received the standard of...
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Trend: Retail companies are buying their way into digital health and fitness
Beginning in 2013 with Under Armour’s MapMyFitness acquisition, a number of retailers have acquired health or fitness app companies. Under Armour itself bought two other health apps. And in the past...
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Fitbit argues Jawbone's patents are too abstract to enforce
Updated with statement from Fitbit.Fitbit's ongoing legal battle with Jawbone about patents has heated up recently, as Fitbit claims that certain Jawbone patents are overly broad and thus invalid....
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Samsung spinoff unveils smartphone-connected fitness tracking shoes
Salted Venture, a Samsung Electronics spinoff, has unveiled fitness tracking running shoes, called IoFit, ahead of the big tech event in Barcelona at the end of the month, Mobile World Congress....
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Apple CEO Tim Cook: Health info at risk in FBI request to unlock iOS
Apple CEO Tim Cook on Wednesday cited backdoor access to health records as just one of many violations of privacy the FBI would be guilty of if the iPhone maker agreed to create a means to unlock a...
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Omada Health launches new version of Prevent with features for underserved...
San Francisco-based Omada Health has launched a new version of its Prevent program with additional features designed for underserved populations, which include people who are Medicaid enrolled,...
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Garmin unveils two activity tracking devices with auto-activity detection
Garmin has unveiled two new activity tracking devices, a smartwatch called vivoactive HR as well as a new version of its vivofit device, called vivofit 3.Vivoactive HR is a GPS smartwatch that allows...
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Under Armour's app acquisitions will soon share a privacy policy, terms of...
For the first time since acquiring MapMyFitness, Endomondo, and MyFitnessPal, Under Armour has updated the privacy policies and terms and conditions of all three apps, to create a single unified...
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Fitbit revenues top $1.8B in 2015, added 1,000 enterprise customers for...
Fitness device tracker company Fitbit saw its revenue more than double in 2015 compared to the year before. The company’s revenue in 2015 reached $1.8 billion, up 149 percent from $754 million in 2014,...
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Fitbit actually acquired FitStar for about $24.8M in the end
Fitbit revealed in its annual report that it ended up buying fitness coaching app FitStar last year for about $24.8 million because it didn't end up having to pay the earnout of $7.7 million.Fitbit...
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Crisis Text Line opens up its mental health texting data set to researchers
Crisis Text Line, a 24-7 mental health texting hotline for teenagers, announced that the non-profit organization plans to share the data it has collected since launching with researchers who want to...
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American Sleep Apnea Association, IBM launch sleep-focused ResearchKit app
The American Sleep Apnea Association (ASAA) has partnered with IBM Watson to launch a ResearchKit study app, called SleepHealth. Researchers aim to use the app to explore the connection between sleep...
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Sage Bionetworks releases data from first six months of Parkinson's mPower...
Sage Bionetworks, a nonprofit biomedical research organization that developed the ResearchKit app mPower, has announced that it will release the first six months of data from the app. mPower, a...
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First Derm launches smartphone-connected dermatoscope
iDoc24, which does business as First Derm, has launched a smartphone-connected dermatoscope, called DermLite Hud, in partnership with dermatoscope manufacturer DermLite. The device costs $79.95 and is...
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Wearable for smoking cessation reduces cravings in small trial
Chrono Therapeutics, the maker of a wearable, smartphone-connected drug delivery device for smoking cessation, has completed a small randomized trial that shows that nicotine replacement therapy...
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How to prod along gamification in healthcare
Gamification has a perennial presence at health tech conferences, but never seems to take central stage. At a late-day session at HIMSS16, Amanda Havard, Chief Innovation Officer at Health: ELT and...
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Reports: 559.6M wearables, 87M activity trackers will ship in 2021
A new crop of research reports are predicting the ways in which the market for wearable devices, including smartwatches and activity trackers, will change over the next few years.Tractica predicts that...
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Are "twins" the key to weight loss apps' success?
As a person with an identical twin brother who consistently weighs less than I do, I can attest that -- without even really doing anything -- he can be a big motivator for weight loss for me. For...
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Gatorade shares more details on its smart water bottle, hydration-sensing patch
As health tracking ideas go, the smart water bottle is a persistent one, but no one has quite managed to pull it off yet, despite numerous attempts that have cropped up on crowdfunding sites and in CES...
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