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ASICS launches virtual workout app ASICS Studio
Last week Japanese sports apparel company ASICS announced the launch of its new mobile fitness app, ASICS Studio. The app gives users access to on-demand workouts, including trainer-led audio, curated...
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Timeline: Apple's 2017 in digital health
Every year it seems like Apple makes more and more moves in the healthcare space, and 2017 was no different. From multiple health-related Apple Watch updates and features to a clinical study to...
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Sports apparel brands are all walking away from fitness wearables
When Adidas bought Runtastic for $240 million in 2015, the fitness giant was pretty obviously playing catchup. The company had just watched Under Armour, a relative upstart in the sports apparel world,...
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Timeline: Alphabet's 2017 in digital health
While many of its health-related efforts have been shunted into Verily, Alphabet (the company formerly known as Google) actually made health-related moves across its business this year. From search...
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Canada will use AI to monitor suicidal social media posts
This year the Canadian government will start using artificial intelligence to help track social media posts that could indicate someone is at risk of suicide, according to a contract. The Canadian...
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23andMe launches 100,000-person study of genetics and weight loss
Consumer gene testing company 23andMe is launching a large online study on the relationship between genetics and weight loss behaviors. Drawing volunteer subjects from its existing customers, the...
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Fitbit invests $6M in glucose monitoring startup Sano
Fitbit has recently invested $6 million in San Fransisco-based Sano, a company developing a mobile app and sensor that will allow users to continuously monitor blood glucose levels, multiple...
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CES 2018: Running list of digital health products
CES has begun and innovators from all over the globe have flocked to Las Vegas to show off their latest products. While news of smart cities and self driving cars seems to be taking over the Internet...
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Heal releases diagnostic health data integration platform, Wellbe
App-based physician house call service, Heal, just announced the launch of its new product Wellbe, a device which serves as a data hub for connected health devices. The company claims Wellbe can link...
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Samsung, MobileHelp partner to bring emergency medical alerts to Gear S3 watches
At CES 2018 this week, Samsung Electronics America and MobileHelp, a maker of home and wearable medical alert devices, announced a collaboration that would bring mobile personal emergency response...
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In-Depth: News and views from CES 2018
Las Vegas was once again host to the annual CES conference (formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show), and digital health players came out in force. Along with a roundup of all the device...
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20 baby health products from CES 2018
Last week CES brought innovators from around the world to Las Vegas. But one event at CES was dedicated to creating innovations for the smallest people. This year participants in the Babytech Awards...
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Study: Sleep app users are mostly healthy, affluent
In a new study of 934 mobile phone users, 100 percent said they used a mobile phone for health-related purposes, but only 28 percent used an app to track sleep. By contrast, 53 percent tracked exercise...
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EarlySense launches contact-free fertility monitor -- and more fertility tech...
The future of fertility monitoring could be as easy as sliding a monitor under your bed. At CES contact free health monitoring company EarlySense released its latest product Percept, an under-mattress,...
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Omron announces new blood pressure monitors, app, AliveCor partnership
Editor's note: The headline of a previous version of this article incorrectly referred to Omron's devices as heart rate monitors instead of blood pressure monitors.Last week at CES, Omron Healthcare...
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Kinsa's crowdsourced smart thermometer data now rivals the CDC at tracking...
Kinsa is one of the leading digital health companies in the smart thermometer space, but the company’s mission has never been to sell thermometers. Instead, Kinsa has always seen itself as a big data...
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Fitbit’s coaching app launches for Xbox, Windows 10 devices
Fitbit Coach, the company’s connected personal training app, has come to Microsoft’s Xbox One videogame console and other Windows 10 PCs, Fitbit announced in a recent blog post. The service — which...
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Microsoft announces closure of HealthVault Insights project; HealthVault...
Microsoft announced recently that it will be shuttering HealthVault Insights, the company’s app-based research project that used machine learning to help users analyze and access their personal health...
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Fearing regulatory backlash, Nokia proactively removes pulse wave velocity...
Nokia has announced that it will disable the pulse wave velocity measurement feature on its Withings’ Body Cardio scale as of January 24. The company said it is now learning the technology may require...
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Smartinhaler maker Adherium heads to the US market with D2C push
New Zealand-based smart inhaler company Adherium, which up until now has distributed its products via pharma sales channels in Europe and Australia, plans to expand into the United States in the first...
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