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By Jonah Comstock | 10:45 am | July 22, 2015
Madison, Wisconsin-based Propeller Health has secured two new FDA clearances for new sensors that are designed to work with two particular inhalers on the market: the Diskus inhaler from GlaxoSmithKline and the Respimat inhaler from Boehringer Ingelheim.
By Aditi Pai | 09:53 am | July 22, 2015
In Apple’s second-quarter earnings call with investors, CEO Tim Cook highlighted three hospitals that were using the Apple Watch: Nebraska Medicine, Ochsner Health System, and London-based King’s College Hospital.
By Aditi Pai | 08:37 am | July 22, 2015
China-based Sleepace, which has developed a sleep tracking device, raised $7 million in a round led by retail chain Luolai Home Textile with participation from ecommerce giant JD.
By Jonah Comstock | 08:35 am | July 22, 2015
The regulatory battles for telemedicine continue to play out slowly in state legislatures across the country.
By Aditi Pai | 05:00 am | July 21, 2015
New York City-based 1DocWay has raised $1.
By Jonah Comstock | 11:44 am | July 20, 2015
Forty-one percent of consumers have never heard of telemedicine, according to a new survey of 1,200 consumers conducted by Survey Sampling International on behalf of HealthMine.
By Jonah Comstock | 11:22 am | July 20, 2015
Palo Alto-based novel blood test company Theranos was granted a waiver from the FDA allowing the company to offer its first FDA-cleared blood test, its herpes simplex 1 virus IgG (HSV IgG) test, outside of a lab setting.
By Aditi Pai | 10:49 am | July 20, 2015
San Francisco-based Limelight Health, which has developed a white-labeled health insurance quoting app, announced that it raised $3 million from MassMutual Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual), and AXA Strategic Ventures.