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San Antonio, Texas-based Airstrip and Camden, NJ-based mVisum recently announced that they had settled the lawsuit AirStrip brought against mVisum in October 2012 for allegedly infringing on AirStrip’s patent for…

Facebook interests could help predict and track obesity, according to a study by researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston, in which geotagged Facebook user data was compared with data from national…

If digital health technologies take hold the way many believe they will, the U.S. may no longer have to worry about a pressing shortage of primary care physicians, projected by…

Telehealth systems provider AMC Health is offering a money-back guarantee that its customers will see at least a 10 percent decline in hospital readmissions within 90 days of implementing AMC’s…

Health-specific incubators and accelerators have been expanding and proliferating for the past two years, and they seem to be making an impact — Rock Health, for instance, recently announced that…

In order to conduct meaningful clinical trials, it’s important to have solid metrics for tracking disease trajectories and patient experiences. Developing these patient outcome measures is the goal of PatientsLikeMe’s…

If there’s one device that’s recently become a symbol for the promise — and potential pitfalls — of mobile health, it’s AliveCor Heart Monitor, formerly known as the AliveCor iPhone…

There are more market research reports, survey results and industry metrics related to mobile and digital health floating around these days than in years past: Our recently published State of…

Research in Motion (RIM) finally renamed itself “BlackBerry” after its signature product, even as it launched its much-awaited iPhone/Android competitor: the BlackBerry 10 operating system, touchscreen BlackBerry Z10 and keyboard-equipped…

Technology moves too quickly for the world of academic publishing. That’s a long held belief by many but also a common topic of conversation among those working in digital health…