WellDoc BlueStar S

WellDoc, Samsung and OTN launch a pilot for patients with type 2 diabetes

The program will include a minimum of 300 people living with type 2 diabetes who will receive a prescription of BlueStar-S from their healthcare provider.
Owlet Baby Care

Owlet Baby Care secures $7M for its Smart Sock baby monitor

Launching this fall, the Owlet Baby Monitor tracks an infant's vital signs like heart rate and oxygen levels to alert parents if their baby stops breathing.
Adherium

Smart inhaler maker Adherium raises $25.6M in an IPO

The New Zealand-based company got $3 million from AstraZeneca with which it recently signed a long-term commercialization agreement.
Kindara Wink

Kindara raises $5.3M seed to grow its mHealth offering for women

The capital will be used to finalize the manufacturing of Wink, the company's Bluetooth-enabled basal thermometer that connects with the popular Kindara app.
Pardeep Athwal, MD, MBA

Interview with Orunje’s co-founder and CEO Pardeep Athwal, MD, MBA

The company is a location based on demand healthcare platform, linking patients with vetted local area healthcare providers.
Medisafe

Medisafe automates medication lists import with Human API

The company initially launched the medication import functionality on its iOS app, with Android version to follow in a couple of weeks.
Novant Health

Novant Health adds fitness tracker data to its patient portal

By integrating with Fitbit and Apple HealthKit, more than 430,000 MyChart users will be able to submit data from personal fitness devices.
MyChi device and app

MyChi is touted as the world’s first food therapy smart assistant

Rooted in Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), by tracking a user's sleep patterns, the system offers dietary and holistic health lifestyle advice.
CuPID

Mobile system could prevent freezing of gait in Parkinson’s patients

The home-based, personalized rehabilitation tool CuPiD was developed by an eight-member EU-funded consortium including researchers at Tel Aviv University.
Parks Associates - Device Data Insurance Discounts

Some users would share data in exchange for insurance discounts

This sharing willingness varies by device used, ranging from 42% of digital pedometer owners to only 26% of those with a sleep-quality monitor.
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