IBM acquires two startups, launches Watson Health, forms new partnerships
The newly formed Watson Health unit is looking to surface new insights from the massive amount of personal health data being created daily.
UnitedHealthcare, Walgreens team-up to incentivize healthy behavior
Select UnitedHealthcare plan participants in Arizona and Illinois will soon earn Walgreens Balance Rewards points for completing certain healthy activities.
Samsung, Partners HealthCare partner to develop mHealth tools
The first phase of this collaboration will include software development and clinical research to deliver tools that improve chronic disease management.
Cerner, Qualcomm Life team-up on home patient monitoring
Qualcomm's 2net Platform and Hub will be used to capture data from medical devices within a patient's home, and transmit it to Cerner's CareAware platform.
Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals launches telehealth services
Using JeffConnect, patients are currently able to schedule follow-up virtual visits in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Otolaryngology and Urology.
STANLEY adds Connexient’s MediNav indoor navigation to its portfolio
The two parties plan to develop product integrations that will enable providers to manage and improve the patient experience along the entire continuum of care.
PointNurse, Swarm team-up to change the way telehealth services work
Providers can join the Global Distributed Telemedicine and Telehealth Collaborative Organization, receive fees and have a proportional stake in the platform.
Johnson & Johnson, Google to advance robotic surgery
The collaboration hopes to develop new technologies that offer surgeons and health care systems greater accuracy, cost efficiency and better patient outcomes.
Sense Health to trial its SMS service in a 1,000 person study
New Jersey-based CompleteCare will back the study that will include using Sense Health's platform for patients with diabetes and hypertension.
Qualcomm, AMC Health to enhance virtual care coordination for chronic care patients
The two companies will integrate Qualcomm Life's 2net Connectivity Platform with AMC Health's CareConsole care coordination platform.









