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New features for Facebook users encourage private mental health conversations...
Facebook is looking serve as the facilitator of constructive, supportive mental health discussions between friends with today’s release of new features for the social media network and its private...
View ArticleGoogle's Pixel 4 will include a radar sensor — here's why that could matter...
At its Made By Google unveiling event in New York City today, Google announced that its Pixel 4 phone will be the first mobile phone with a radar sensor. It's the first public rollout of the company’s...
View ArticleAncestry launches health genomics products under AncestryHealth
Ancestry, a consumer genomic testing company focused on family history, is now turning to the health space with its launch of AncestryHealth. The new product is aimed at giving customers insights into...
View ArticleHealth literacy, numeracy bar entry in dieting apps
With thousands of dieting and fitness apps on the market, it’s clear technology is increasingly becoming a part of weight loss for many Americans. At this year’s Connected Health conference in Boston,...
View ArticleTracking behaviors is the first step to lifestyle hacking
As the medical community increasingly researches the dangers of screen time, many Americans say they are looking to unplug and engage in digital detoxes. However, Chris Dancy, health and wellness...
View ArticleQ&A: Microsoft's head of retail health innovation on understanding consumers,...
Neil Jordan has had a front row seat to the changing role of tech and consumer-focused initiatives in healthcare. For nine years he served as Microsoft’s efforts in this space as the general manager of...
View Article'Mindlessness is the new mindfulness': Lessons from brain science on how to...
Many a digital health intervention has been stymied by the same problem, one that’s familiar to anyone who’s ever tried to quit smoking or lose weight by changing their diet: the extreme difficulty of...
View ArticlePlenty of investigations have found consumer health apps to have false...
Consumer-facing health apps are increasingly prevalent, but they’re anything but infallible. According to a recent literature review of published app safety investigations, these offerings have been...
View ArticleBy employing participants' smartphones, researchers hone in on bad...
It’s an age-old question: do joint and bone pains really get worse with the weather, or is it all just grumblings and happenstance? For an answer, a new study published in NPJ Digital Health looked to...
View ArticleFacebook's new tool tells users what checkups they need, where to get them
Facebook is again expanding its public health messaging efforts with the launch of a new tool that shows users in the US a list of recommended preventive tests or checkups, sets scheduling reminders...
View ArticleHIMSSCast: Big moves in digital health from Alphabet, Facebook, Amazon
Articles referenced in today's episode:Alphabet makes offer to acquire FitbitFacebook's new tool tells users what checkups they need, where to get themAmazon makes its second digital health acquisition...
View ArticleAliveCor teams up with Huami to develop medical-grade wearables
Digital ECG maker AliveCor is teaming up with Chinese wearable company Huami Corporation on a new effort to combine the pair’s technology into medical-grade wearables. The end goal is to have an...
View ArticleIt's official: Google acquires wearable giant Fitbit
After a month of rumors, this morning Google and Fitbit announced that the former has officially purchased the wearable giant for roughly $2.1 billion, or $7.35 per share, in cash.Fitbit stressed that...
View ArticleEversense CGM system sensors recalled due to manufacturing error
The FDA has issued a class two device recall for Senseonics’ Eversense continuous glucose monitoring system. This posting follows a September notice from the company that alerted providers and...
View ArticleWellDoc's BlueStar cleared for Type 1 diabetes management, CGM integrations
Type 1 diabetes management and CGM integration are now on the table for WellDoc’s BlueStar, a management platform well known for being the first mobile health product to secure reimbursement as a...
View ArticleScanwell announces $3.5M seed funding for home UTI testing, launches...
Scanwell Health, maker of a smartphone-based platform for home urinary tract infection screening, has raised $3.5 million in seed funding. Founders Fund, Mayfield, DCM, Version One, Y Combinator and...
View ArticleEisia rolls out new Amazon Alexa skill geared at children with rare form of...
Japanese pharma Eisai Co.'s subsidiary Eisai Inc. is rolling out a new skill on Amazon Alexa developed specifically to target children with Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome (LGS), a rare and severe form of...
View ArticleFitbitOS update to come with improved heart rate tracking, sleep health...
New health tracking features are on the menu for Fitbit’s next smartwatch OS update. Unveiled this morning and set to go live on December 3, FitbitOS 4.1 brings some of the sleep health capabilities...
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Apple rolls out Research: One app for three new longitudinal studies
As of this morning, iOS users can officially download Apple’s new Research app and sign up for one or more of the three studies the company announced at its WWDC event in September.Inspired by the...
View ArticleApple pulls 181 vaping-related apps from App Store
Following a slew of vaping-related deaths and other emerging health concerns, Apple has announced that it will pull down all 181 vaping apps from the App Store, Axios first reported. "We take great...
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