Consumer
Apple has filed for a handful of new patents related to biometric sensing and tracking, according to a report over at AppleInsider.
A little over a year ago, Nike made headlines when it announced that it was not working an Android app for its Nike+ FuelBand users.
LG's heart rate sensing earphones use technology licensed from Valencell.
WebMD updated its consumer-facing health app this week: it now integrates a user's biometric data from certain activity trackers, wireless scales, and glucose meters.
Google Now tracking activity.
This week, a bevy of telehealth stakeholders sent incoming HHS secretary Sylvia Burwell a letter as part of ongoing efforts to improve the legal and political climate for telehealth.
Chrono Therapeutics, a Hayward, California-based company working on a new wearable for smoking cessation and drug delivery, has raised $32 million in its first round of funding.
Researcher Ronen Polsky holds the prototype sensor.
Weight Watchers' consumer-facing app
Weight Watchers has launched an app to help its service providers -- the leaders and receptionists that run the member meetings -- collect member data and track sales.
Pasadena, California-based Stir, maker of the Stir Kinetic Desk, has announced integration with Fitbit's devices that have display screens -- the Fitbit Flex, Fitbit One and Fitbit Zip.