Alexa Diabetes Challenge

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.
Telus thinkFull

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

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 inSight 2.0

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 Cerebrum

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.
Samsung Health app

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 app

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

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.
PocketRx

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 Pregnancy app - study

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.