Hot5 app

Weight Watchers acquires Hot5

The startup provides users with access to a wide range of short fitness videos from mobile devices; its two apps had more than 400,000 downloads.
Flagship Ventures

Flagship Ventures teams-up with AstraZeneca, Nestle and Bayer

The parties will work together to create the next generation of cutting-edge innovations leading to a portfolio of pioneering digital health ventures.
Sherpaa

Sherpaa raises $2.25M for its text messaging service

Employees can use Sherpaa's app, the web, or a phone to communicate with doctors, who can respond on an array of medical issues and send prescriptions.
IBM Watson Health

IBM’s Watson Health moves into personalized medicine, EHR integration

The company is partnering with more than a dozen cancer institutes to personalize treatment via DNA, to gather medical data and come up with treatments.
Evolent Health

Evolent Health files for an IPO

The company which offers health care providers a software platform that manages a value-based care model is looking to raise up to $100 million.
Welltwigs device

Welltwigs’ fertility solution combines BBT, hormone tracking and a mobile app

The company offers a pair of devices called Thermotwig and Labtwig, and a mobile app to give women a better way to track their baby-making window.
FitClick app

FitClick’s app uses voice to track calorie intake

Available as a free download for iOS and Android phones, the Talk-to-Track app can interpret spoken entries to identify food items and calculate calories.
Igantia

San Francisco startup looking to decode longevity

By crowdsourcing scientific data across the world, Igantia plans to decode human longevity by examining the biological clocks inherent to women.
Omron smart devices

Omron unveils smart blood pressure monitor and scale

The two Bluetooth-enabled devices are designed to allow chronically ill patients to stay at home while connected to healthcare professionals.
Tractica smart clothing graph

Smart clothing shipments to reach 10.2 million units by 2020

At the same time, body sensor shipments will decrease from 3 million units in 2013 to 1.2 million by 2017, before rising again to 3.1 million units in 2020.