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90 million wearable devices to ship in 2014
Driven by the growth of sports, fitness and health applications, 90 million wearable computing devices will be shipped this year, according to an announcement from ABI Research. Though the commercial...
Report: mHealth creates business opportunities for companies
A new report from Forrester Research examines how mobile healthcare has changed consumer behavior, and how the resulting data on this behavior can totally transform a firm's relationship with...
Taking mobile health to heart
February is American Heart Month, a time to reflect on the fact that cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women in the United States. An estimated 630,000 Americans...
Vision care insurer VSP to cover Google Glass
The nation's largest optical health insurance provider will offer frames and prescription lenses for Google Glass, reports the New York Times. The deal between VSP, which insures one-fifth of...
Apple vs. Google: An mHealth Face-Off
Industry observers like myself have often painted the competitive mHealth landscape with a brush that wages computer manufacturer Dell and software behemoth Microsoft versus Apple--the reigning...
Wanted: Medical sensor experts to work on Apple iWatch
Apple continues to hire engineers and managers with expertise in developing medical sensors to work on its iWatch wristwatch-like device, reports Mark Gurman at 9to5Mac. According to Gurman, over...
Personal health, wellness product market to reach $8B by 2018
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has announced the results of a new report which predicts more than an 142 percent increase in personal health and wellness product sales and software and...
Under Armour to buy MapMyFitness for $150 million
Baltimore-based athletic apparel company Under Armour has announced its intention to buy MapMyFitness, one of the world's largest open fitness tracking platforms, for $150 million. The deal is...
Wearable device startup Fitbit raises $43 million
Fitbit, the San Francisco-based startup that has helped drive the growth of the health and fitness sensing market with its activity tracking devices, has raised $43 million in new venture capital...
Google Glass could be promising technology for the ER
Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, has performed preliminary testing with Google Glass and plans to run a pilot in the medical...
