Boston Children's Hospital - Rock Health

Boston Children’s Hospital, Rock Health team-up to advance pediatric digital health technology

Under the deal, Rock Health will fund and support digital startups, while Boston Children's will act as clinical advisor to the promising companies.
veterans

VA to test self-care text messaging app

The application called Annie will be tested at four VA sites, including Washington, D.C.; Portland, Maine; Cleveland; and Minneapolis.
PatientsLikeMe - Diabetes Collaborative Registry

The ACC, PatientsLikeMe team-up over diabetes research and care

The partnership will encourage people living with diabetes to offer perspectives to enhance and accelerate the registry's research and development agenda.
Google Life Sciences, AHA team-up to research coronary heart disease

Google Life Sciences, AHA team-up to research coronary heart disease

The two parties are looking to bring new, unconventional thinking to understand, prevent, and reverse coronary heart disease and its consequences.
FDA logo

FDA looking for comments on mHealth in clinical trials

The agency wants to know how healthcare providers and other parties are using consumer-generated data, and whether the data being collected is reliable.
Yale EPV app

Yale’s new ResearchKit app aims to prevent pregnancy loss

The ResearchKit-based study seeks to determine whether estimated placental volume (EPV) measurements can be used to predict pregnancy outcome.
pediatric asthma monitor

SMU, U-Maryland score an NIH grant for pediatric asthma monitor

The device will monitor air quality, CO2 levels in the blood, physical activity, breathing, emotional states and other stimuli to identify asthma triggers.
Reflexion Health - Vera

Reflexion Health’s remote monitoring tool for physical therapy clears the FDA

Called Vera, it is designed to help people recovering from injuries do their physical therapy from home, while allowing therapists to collect patients' data.
HubX-LifeSciences

New digital health accelerator announced in Arkansas

Set to run from April 4 to June 30, 2016, the accelerator will help startups in three areas: digital health platforms, healthcare services, and medical devices.
MightySat Rx

Masimo’s MightySat Rx Fingertip Pulse Oximeter clears the FDA

The device noninvasively measures arterial oxygen saturation and pulse rate, in addition to perfusion index and optional pleth variability index.