Technology

Amgen, DaVita HealthCare Partners, Lockton, and life insurer John Hancock offer innovative wellness program that allows members to earn Apple's smartwatch.

The Big Blue has also introduced Watson Health for ResearchKit, which is available at no charge to qualified, non-profit health researchers.

Called Kanega watch, the wearable device is easy to use, relying on speech interface rather than buttons, as well as cellular and Wi-Fi connectivity.

The company has just raised less than $1 million from Launchpad Digital Health to expand its staff and scale to more deployments.

During the entire 2015, vendors shipped a total of 78.1M units, 171.6% more than the previous year; top vendors are Fitbit, Apple, Xiaomi, Samsung and Garmin.

This headband plays binaural beats at different frequencies into each ear to induce a meditative state, thus making it easier to fall to sleep and stay asleep.

The point of this new type of wearable, as Samsung likes to call it, is to make activity tracking tech appealing to the wider audience.

The application enables individuals with asthma to participate in a large­-scale medical research study by simply using their Apple iPhones.

Medical-grade, wearable biosensor automatically and continuously measures vital signs for at-risk patients in low acuity settings in the hospital.

Last year, activity tracker shipments grew almost 80 percent over 2014, as new players entered the market and sales outside the U.S. took off.