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AliveCor’s KardiaMobile five times more effective at detecting heart...
A&E departments in the UK should introduce AliveCor’s KardiaMobile device into standard care, researchers have said, for patients presenting with heart palpitations or feeling lightheaded, after a...
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Indonesia’s Halodoc health-tech platform raises US$65m in series B funding
Halodoc, an Indonesia-based health-tech platform, recently announced that it has raised US$65m in a series B funding led by new investor UOB Venture Management. Other new investors in the financing...
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Calm's meditation app comes to Samsung Health
San Francisco-based Calm’s meditation service is now directly accessible through the Samsung Health app, the companies announced in a press release yesterday.Smartphone users who have downloaded and...
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Eversense CGM to integrate with Glooko
This morning Senseonics, an implantable glucose sensor company, announced that data from its Eversense continuous glucose monitor will be integrated into the Glooko diabetes management platform. This...
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Versa Lite, Ace 2, Inspire wearables headline Fitbit's spring product line
Fitbit has pulled back the curtain on its latest collection of health and fitness wearables. Chief among these is a scaled back take on the company’s popular Versa smartwatch called the Fitbit Versa...
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Babylon's triage chatbot launches in British Columbia
Babylon’s triage chatbot and virtual confirmation platform has come to Canada’s British Columbia in the form of a newly launch telehealth app, Babylon by Telus Health. The tool allows users to describe...
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Facebook, Instagram to limit spread of vaccine misinformation
Facebook has detailed its new strategy to curb the spread of vaccine misinformation on both its primary social media platform as well as Instagram. Broadly, these include efforts to reduce the...
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23andMe launches predisposition test for Type 2 diabetes
At SXSW in Austin this weekend, consumer genomics company 23andMe unveiled its latest test, a predisposition report on Type 2 diabetes.The test, which has not undergone FDA clearance and does not...
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Algorithm uses smartphone camera, flashlight to spot diabetes
New research set to be presented next week at the American College of Cardiology’s 68th Annual Scientific Session describes how the camera on a smartphone could be used to screen for Type 2...
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BACtrack launches remote monitoring app for alcoholism
BACtrack, a company that has been invested in the smartphone-connected breathalyzer for years now, has launched BACTrack View, a new remote monitoring service that will let friends, family, or sponsors...
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AHRQ launches app to help patients preplan questions for doctors
Figuring out the right questions to ask a doctor during a short visit can be stressful, but the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is attempting to help remedy this issue with a new app called...
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With new feature, Withings' sleep sensor moves towards sleep apnea space
French consumer health device maker Withings has updated its sleep sensor mat with new capabilities that track breathing disturbances throughout a night’s sleep and could eventually warn users of sleep...
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Walgreens Boots Alliance inks deal with Concepta Diagnostics to sell myLotus...
This morning Concepta Diagnostics, maker of the take-home home fertility monitoring system myLotus, announced a deal with the Walgreens Boots Alliance to sell its product.This news marks the first...
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Apple Heart Study results: Notifications are rare, but often coincide with...
This weekend, Stanford Medicine researchers presented the long-awaited results of the Apple Heart Study, which explored the performance of the Apple Watch’s heart rate sensor and an accompanying...
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Vida Health unveils machine learning behavior tool, Sleep Health coaching...
Over the last week, San Francisco-based Vida Health’s consumer and member digital health coaching programs have seen the rollout of a personalized behavior recommendation and reminder tool powered by...
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Focus on: Aging and the Silver Tsunami
HIMSS Media's information brands Healthcare IT News, Healthcare Finance News, MobiHealthNews and HIMSS TV are diving into one of the most pressing issues facing healthcare today – baby boomers and...
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FDA co-sponsors horror video game to scare teens away from cigarettes
The FDA has lately taken a hard stance on tobacco companies targeting children and teens (thanks in some part to departing FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb), and it certainly seems as if the agency...
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Most popular health apps routinely share data with little transparency
After creating dummy accounts on highly-rated Android medical apps and analyzing their traffic, an investigation published Wednesday in BMJ found that nearly four in five shared users’ data with...
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Senseonics launches program for low-cost Eversense CGM systems
On Friday, Senseonics, maker of the implantable continuous glucose monitoring system Eversense, announced a new program geared towards patients with high-deductible insurance plans or plans that don’t...
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Patients' online triage tool use mirrors traditional care seeking behaviours,...
A recent independent review of askmyGP, an online triage and telehealth consultation service deployed in the UK, suggests that patients seeking care online often behave similarly to those simply...
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