mHealth Spot

LabStyle makes Dario, which combines a mobile glucose meter with personalized information about how your nutrition and activity affects your sugar levels.

Using a smartphone and an attached device that work with an accompanying app, the system can quantify and interpret the results within five minutes.

The top three reasons for adopting cloud services include lower maintenance costs, speed of deployment and lack of internal staffing resources...

Existing investors also participated, including Real Ventures, Mistral Venture Partners, Golden Venture Partners, David Cohen, Flextronics and Primera Capital.

Apps relying on the Virtual Visits technology will allow consumers to request a virtual medical session for acute conditions, like a cold, flu or sore throat.

The study, which involved the iPhone 4S, focused on the safety and effectiveness of automated glycemic management under unrestricted outpatient conditions.

The $69 wrist band is one of the most affordable fitness bands on the market; it can track sleep, heart rate, calories, steps and distance.

One of the patents envisions a smartphone responding to data sent by various sensors coming from either the iPhone or other wearable devices, or both.

Apple will procure iWatch components Quanta, LG and Heptagon which will be taking care of the chassis, screen and internal sensors, respectively.

Researchers at the Child & Family Research Institute (CFRI) at BC Children's Hospital and the University of British Columbia are behind the effort.