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Stanford has expanded its ResearchKit-based heart health trial, run from the MyHeart Counts iPhone app, to Hong Kong and the United Kingdom.
Crowdsourced business review website Yelp has partnered with non-profit newsroom ProPublica to add more healthcare statistics to Yelp's 25,000 medical treatment facility business pages.
Fitbit Surge
Fitbit sold 4.
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey carved out a place for mobile health in his plan for the state's new Medicaid plan this week, but some critics think the initiative could miss the mark for a low-income population less likely to have smartphones.
Boston-based healthcare analytics company Care at Hand has raised $560,000.
Apparently Under Armour isn't the only apparel company that can play the fitness app game.
Lowell, Massachusetts-based remote patient monitoring company InfoBionic has raised $8 million led by existing investor Safeguard Scientifics.
By Bradley Merrill Thompson
Healthcare in America needs disrupting.
Brian Garcia, Welltok's new chief technology and product officer.
A new app, developed at the interaction design lab at Cornell University, has a novel approach to helping users lose weight: an algorithm that latches onto the healthy behaviors users are already doing and then gradually encourages them to do more of the same.