COPD Navigator app

LifeMap Solutions launches COPD Navigator for iPhone

Available as a free download, the app relies on evidence-based care guidelines to empower COPD patients to better monitor and manage their condition.
Welltok acquires Silverlink

Welltok acquires Silverlink, raises additional $45M

Silverlink identifies which channels and messages work best for which individuals, so that subsequent outreach can be better targeted and more personalized.
Lively

GreatCall acquires Lively to support its active aging tech

Founded in 2012, Lively developed a safety watch and a system of passive activity sensors to alert family members and share daily routines.
higi

Validic, higi team-up over remote patient monitoring

Integration between the two platforms provides comprehensive health data access for healthcare organizations seeking to develop innovative treatments.
drchrono on a tablet

drchrono launches first medical billing app

For the first time -- the company claims -- executives, physicians and medical billers can see the status of billing anywhere, anytime through their iPad.
SeamlessMedical

Seamless Medical raises $2.5M for its iPad-based registration process

The company's software as a service offering uses iPads rather than paper forms to reduce registration time from 30 minutes to 10 or less.
Gmate smart

Android for Gmate SMART mobile diabetes monitoring system clears the FDA

The Gmate SMART is a small, portable blood glucose meter that plugs into the headphone jack of a smartphone and provides fast blood glucose test results.
VirtualHealthNow

Community Health Systems launches telehealth service with help of American Well

Called VirtualHealth Now, the service will provide patients with a more convenient way to access primary urgent care services after hours and on weekends.
Polaris Health

MD Anderson Cancer Center launches the Apple Watch pilot

An Apple Watch app called emPower will enable users to answer multiple-choice questions about their mood, symptoms, possible treatment side effects and more.
Brodsky with the bucket and iPhone

Inner ear problems detection with an iPhone and bucket

An iPhone stuck to the bottom of a plastic bucket is all it takes to cost effectively diagnose vestibular conditions in children.