Alexa Diabetes Challenge launched to make life easier for diabetics
The contest invites developers to create apps that use Amazon's Alexa voice-enabled technology and Amazon Web Services cloud infrastructure to help patients recently diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes.
Canada’s Telus donates its youth-focused mental health app to the CMHA
thinkFull is a stress management app aimed at improving the mental health of young adults by helping them monitor and develop coping strategies to manage stress levels.
Red Cross’ Blood Donor app hits the 1 million downloads milestone
All those downloads resulted in approximately 988,000 blood and platelet donation appointments.
eKare unveils the first Google Tango-enabled medical app for wound care
inSight 2.0 uses 3D imaging to address the unmet need for accurate and consistent measurement in wound care.
Medable’s Cerebrum is a cloud-based machine learning solution for healthcare
The first such solution created specifically for healthcare apps, Cerebrum leverages smartphones to bring on an era of pervasive health diagnostics.
S Health is dead, long live Samsung Health
Samsung's rebranded mHealth platform and app have been announced alongside the company's flagship smartphone Galaxy S8.
RightMinder is an Android Wear app for seniors
The application provides fall detection, first alert monitoring and alerts, GPS location reporting, and multiple first alert carer connections.
Adidas’ All Day app tracks and guides users towards a healthy lifestyle
Content-wise, All Day features a collection of text and video tutorials, ranging from quick yoga moves to green recipes.
Digital Pharmacist acquires PocketRx, a prescription management app
The acquisition will help Digital Pharmacist accelerate its product development schedule, and expand its reach to over 6,000 pharmacies nationwide.
WebMD, STSI launch a ResearchKit-based study to what contributes to healthy pregnancies
The study will use WebMD's newly redesigned Pregnancy app for iPhone, enabling participants to easily answer questions and share connected device data.









