Garmin BCBS partnership

Garmin Health, BCBS to provide more than 60M members with digital health solution

The solution is made to encourage improved health and wellbeing through access to the health metrics of Garmin wearable devices.
Heal app

Heal adds contextual, data-driven telemedicine solution to its offering

Combined with the Heal Hub, telemedicine is being delivered by a familiar doctor through the context of the patient's health history and real-time vitals.
IDC: Top wearables companies Q1 2019

IDC: Global shipments of wearable devices reached 49.6M units in Q1 2019

While wrist-worn wearables accounted for the majority of the market with 63.2% share, ear-worn devices experienced the fastest growth (135.1% YoY).
Pokémon Sleep

Pokémon Sleep app coming next year to “turn sleep into entertainment”

Nintendo promises that the game will track a user's time sleeping and "bring a gameplay experience unlike any other!"
digital health

Canada launches the Digital Health and Discovery Platform

Through the new platform, researchers and doctors will work on development of new treatments to help to find cures for diseases that affect Canadians.
Amazon emotion patent

Amazon working on a tech to detect your emotional state

The company is reportedly developing a wrist-worn device that would determine your emotions to make helpful suggestions and sell you products.
Comcast

Comcast working on an in-home device to track people’s health

The company will start to experiment with pilots by the end of 2019, with potential commercial release in 2020.
Aaptiv Coach

Fitness platform Aaptiv adds personalized coach service

The new, AI-powered service will provide Aaptiv members with a personalized coaching plan that incorporates fitness, mindfulness, and healthy habits.
Jumpstart Foundry 2019 cohort

Jumpstart Foundry adds 15 healthcare startups

These companies span direct-to-consumer goods, diagnostic devices, and remote patient monitoring in payer, provider and employer spaces.
Project Baseline homepage

Verily teams-up with Novartis, Otsuka, Pfizer and Sanofi to transform clinical research

Leading biopharmaceutical organizations join Project Baseline initiative to engage more patients and clinicians in research and speed evidence generation.
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