mHealth Spot

Although the company's CEO Tim Cook hasn't shared any figures, the research firm looked at the iPhone maker's earnings to get to the estimate.

The service will allow patients to search for physicians who are able to provide immediate online consultations or in-office visits on short notice.

Available for iOS and Android, the application was used as a companion during nearly 1.6 million pregnancies, out of about 4 million annual births in the U.S.

The expansion benefits primarily from a combination of rising awareness about the benefits of mHealth services and the ubiquity of 3G and 4G mobile networks.

The two parties are integrating their respective technology platforms to drive patient-centric research by including data from sensors, wearables and apps.

The company's platform allows users to book free trials with exercise classes, personal trainers, and nutritionists; it has more than 50,000 active users.

The device boasts a sapphire-coated 1.4-inch 400x400 pixels round AMOLED touchscreen, 1.2GHz quad-core processor, 512MB of RAM, and 4GB of internal storage.

Initially, the device was made to help livestock farmers, but the company now plans to seek U.S. FDA approval next year to expand its use to men.

Both devices can store up to 20 hours of heart rate data during swims, and send real-time heart rate when the user is out of the water.

The hospital didn't share which monitoring devices it's using but said these are FDA-approved hospital products, not consumer devices, and are worn on the arm.