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Apple Watch adds gym equipment integration, built-in Bluetooth
As is becoming the trend, the portion of Apple's WWDC conference dedicated to the Apple Watch featured a heavy focus on the watch's health and fitness features, which continue to be the wearable's...
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Stanford digital officer Sumbul Desai is Apple's latest stealthy health hire
Apple has hired Sumbul Desai, MD, clinical associate professor of medicine at Stanford. Desai is also vice chair of the Department of Medicine and chief digital officer at Stanford Center for Digital...
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Rythm's sleep-tracking wearable makes official debut
Three years in the making, and Dreem has come true. The sleep-tracking wearable, made by Paris and San Francisco-based startup Rythm is now available for pre-order. Along with the public debut of...
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No longer under the Withings name, Nokia's connected health ecosystem hits...
As promised, Nokia has officially launched its suite of consumer digital health tools that formerly lived under the Withings name. Along with the connected scale, blood pressure monitor, thermometer...
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Fitbit eyes sleep apnea space for next digital innovation
As we’ve reported regularly for the past several months, Fitbit has made increasingly targeted moves to wedge itself deeper into the healthcare ecosystem. No longer able to rely on the consumer market...
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Sensor makers speak out on the increasing commoditization of hardware
In the connected health space, hardware is becoming less and less important as sensors become commodified, according to two panelists at HXRefactored, a conference held in Boston this week. Instead,...
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Beyond Verbal launches API to enable voice-based emotion detection by virtual...
As virtual private assistants like Amazon’s Alexa become smarter, more popular and more useful, why not give it them tools to recognize emotions? That seems to be the thinking behind Israel-based...
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15 health and wellness use cases for virtual reality
Virtual reality has moved from science fiction to marketable consumer product astonishingly quickly, partly because the incorporation of the smartphone into the technology makes it accessible, if not...
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Insulin delivery, workout routes, and more added to Apple HealthKit
While it may or may not be working on a secret glucose wearable, Apple has definitely upgraded its HealthKit app framework to provide more tracking options for people with diabetes. In addition, the...
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Dexcom, Propeller, and ReSound poised to make use of Apple Watch native...
At least three digital health companies are poised to take advantage of native Bluetooth on the Apple Watch, announced at the company’s WWDC keynote last month. In addition to Dexcom (which was...
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Khosla-backed fitness startup Pact shuts down
Pact, the startup that incentivized users to healthy behaviors by getting them to essentially bet money on their own adherence, has shut down, according to an email the company sent out to its users on...
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Report: Jawbone is finally dead, but may rise from the ashes as Jawbone...
It looks like Jawbone, the activity tracker company that has been teetering on the brink of collapse for a few years now, is finally shutting down. Citing sources close to the company, The Information...
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Global study of 700K smartphone users shows link between obesity and activity...
A team of NIH-funded researchers at Stanford University have published some results in Nature from a large global study of activity data, as collected by Azumio's Argus smartphone app. The data has...
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Fitbit faces another patent suit, this one over haptic feedback
Fitbit is once again facing a patent lawsuit, this time over the haptic feedback technology present in its last two generations of trackers. San Jose-based Immersion filed suit in the U.S. District...
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Jay Blahnik on what separates Apple Watch from other fitness trackers
It's been a rough year for wrist-worn wearable activity trackers. As we noted in a column last December, what was once a vibrant and competitive field is now a graveyard of failed devices like the...
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Why did Jawbone fail? Digital health Twitter weighs in
[View the story "Why did Jawbone fail?" on Storify]Tags: Jawbonewearable technologywearable activity trackerJawbone shut downCategories: ConsumerAuthor: Jonah ComstockThumbnail:
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Garmin, K4Connect partner on wearable healthcare devices for seniors
K4Connect, a technology company focused on seniors and those with disabilities, has partnered up with Garmin International on wearable devices geared toward residents of senior living communities, as...
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Lose It! releases DNA-based weight loss app embodyDNA
Weight loss app Lose It!, which boasts 30 million users and more than 50 million pounds lost, has launched embodyDNA, a DNA-based weight loss plan that personalizes results using an interactive...
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Yelp, California Health Care Foundation form partnership to improve maternity...
More than 500,000 births occur each year in the state of California, but deciding where to get care can often be a difficult process for consumers. That’s where a new partnership between Yelp and the...
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Cardiogram launches new Apple Watch features with a view toward heart health
Cardiogram, a startup working on algorithms to make the Apple Watch’s heart rate data clinically actionable, is launching two new features for the Apple Watch that aim to help people stay more active...
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