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San Mateo-based startup Mousera raised $8.

While a tiny percentage of Ebola cases are popping up in the United States and Europe, the epicenter of the disease is and remains in West Africa, an area where mobile health initiatives are often deployed, especially those that take advantage of text messaging and other short message services.

At Partners HealthCare's Connected Health Symposium last week, Beth Israel Deaconess CIO and SVP Dr.

Google's in-progress contact lens.

Google has released the fitness app for Android devices it announced in June, called Google Fit.

Practice Fusion has released a new, overhauled version of its free electronic health record, optimized for mobile devices, particularly Apple and Android tablets.

Bellevue, Washington-based employee engagement platform Limeade raised $25 million in a round led by Oak HC/FT Partners.

San Francisco-based mobile-enabled health coaching services company Vida has raised $5 million in its first round of funding from Aspect Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Yahoo Co-Founder Jerry Yang, Signia Venture Partners, The Valley Fund, Yahoo Chairman Maynard Webb, Silicon Valley Bank's Kevin Scott, and Skip Battle.

Portland, Oregon-based Bright.

Mountain View, California-based iHealth, a subsidiary of Chinese medical device company Andon Health, announced a new device, called iHealth Edge, its second foray into the activity tracking space.