Digital Health

Fitbit’s wearables are at the heart of recent announcements from diabetes self-management platform One Drop and the City of Santa Monica’s Office of Civic Wellbeing.

Dynamic pricing has already been adopted in the world of sports, and purportedly is proving to be more efficient than the traditional fixed-price approach.

This post is about how to use modern science and personalized medicine to make yourself healthier, more productive and happier.

At-home genetic testing is a part of personalized medicine. It promises new insights into components of our health, but are they really beneficial?

Give Hosain Rahman credit for persistence.

Insight from Active Wellness' vice president of technology, plus stories on wearable integration, CMS reports, embracing cardio technology and more.

Wearables have already entered the world of corporate wellness with many companies starting to hand out wearable devices to their employees. More tha

Health insurer AIA already offers its members benefits such as weekly $5 vouchers for iTunes, Hoyts, Woolworths or Boost Juice for completing 12,500 steps a day on their Fitbit, while MLC offers members discounted premiums for staying active.

Last year, Medibank announced a partnership with Coles offering members 10 Flybuys points for every day they reach 10,000 steps on their Fitbit or Garmin fitness tracker. With 2000 Flybuys points working out to $10, 10 points is the equivalent of five cents.

Qantas, meanwhile, recently gave Frequent Flyer members the ability to earn points by cycling through the Qantas Assure Wellness Rewards program, although to earn 100 Qantas Points participants would need to ride 100km a week.

Hospitals and doctors have identified digital tools that can assist patients in dealing with ailments such as diabetes, heart disease and lung disease. The early results are promising.

Not-for-profit Sutter Health earned recognition as one of 2017’s Most Wired.

Technology is making it easier for patients and providers to interact, thus improving communication, safety and patient-provider relationships, according to results of the 19th Annual Health Care’s Most Wired® survey released today by the American Hospital Association’s (AHA) Health Forum.  

Optimizing human output is the next wave in tech growth, according to Michael Brandt, co-founder of Nootrobox.

New agreement between Novant Health and Carolinas HealthCare System signals further progress in effort toward true interoperability.

Fitbit (NYSE: FIT) has seen decelerating growth in seven of its last eight quarters , and investors have punished the stock. Shares of the fitness device maker are down over

This shift is long overdue. Whereas new technologies, competitors, and business models have made products and services more affordable and accessible in media, finance, retail, and other sectors, U.S. health care keeps getting costlier. It is now by far the world’s most expensive system per capita, about twice that of the UK, Canada, and Australia, with chronic conditions such as diabetes and heart disease now accounting for more than 80% of total spending.

It seems plausible that Apple could still have the impact it's looking for without having to acquire or expand into medical clinics.

In June, fitness wearables company Fitbit (NYSE: FIT) published a document titled Fitbit Profile and Update. The document covered key financials and the turnaround plans for 2017...

It's become an annual tradition for MobiHealthNews to parse Inc. Magazine's Inc 5,000 list of fastest growing companies in America, calling out the digital health and health tech companies that made the list. We found more companies than ever on this year's list, some you'll recognize and some you may not.

NHS ENGLAND is to invest tens of millions of pounds in electronic GP consultations, where patients are diagnosed using email, after nationwide trials were hailed as a success.

Today, Springbuk released the Employer Guide to Wearables 2.0, a three-part study that reviewed key preferences, features and implementation considerations of employers for wearables in corporate wellness programs.

Given all the positive developments concerning digital health, questions are now arising that need to be addressed regarding health data and privacy.

If a major tech conglomerate wanted to take a gamble on health care, there are a lot of ways to get in the industry right now.

We’re a little closer to getting rid of bulky health sensors now that scientists have created a super-thin wearable that can record data through skin. That would make this wearable, which looks like a stylish gold tattoo, ideal for long-term medical monitoring — it’s already so comfortable that people forgot they were wearing it.

Jawbone, the consumer electronics firm once valued at $3 billion, is going out of business. The company has begun liquidation proceedings, after years of financial pressures, according to a person close to Jawbone. Jawbone co-founder and CEO Hosain Rahman has founded a new digital health company.

The long-term efficacy of using artificial intelligence for mental health is still being discovered, but the initial results are promising.

As we’ve reported regularly for the past several months, Fitbit has made increasingly targeted moves to wedge itself deeper into the healthcare ecosystem. No longer able to rely on the consumer market alone to stay financially healthy, the company has continually upped the ante to prime itself as a digital health company in its own right.