Home health tech to be used by over 78M consumers by 2020
Expanded capabilities for medical monitoring, remote consultations, eldercare, and health and wellness applications will drive this growth.
Insurance provider Oscar raises $145 million
The new capital will allow Oscar to expand its operations, develop new products and extend plans to new members across the country.
Alibaba working with partners on China’s first “cloud hospital”
The platform promises to improve the quality of medical care by making it easier to manage individual patient cases and analyze aggregated health data.
Doctors 2.0 & You, Expanscience launch short video contest
Everyone can submit their short video that expresses public health messages on one of the two themes that will benefit from the expertise of Expanscience.
9% of U.S. adults to own a smartwatch by 2016
As smartwatch penetration grows, it will close in on activity tracker which will begin to plateau by the end of 2016, peaking at 32 million units.
Figure 1 app gets paging support
The so called Instagram for doctors now allows users to instantly receive feedback from colleagues around the world.
VR could be used to evaluate balance control in glaucoma patients
The study subjects used Oculus Rift goggles that can simulate different settings while standing on a force platform, which can measure balance and movement.
These are the Google Fit Developer Challenge winners
The grand prize winners and the runner ups will be receiving devices from Google's challenge partners to help with their ongoing fitness app development.
Mobile delivers healthcare
Leveraging responses of 238 healthcare professionals, the survey suggests that healthcare organizations are widely beginning to deploy mobile technologies...
Chrona smart pillow uses speakers to help you sleep
The thin memory foam pillow, which is designed to sit on top of your regular pillow, will also track your sleep with a built-in accelerometer.