MedApps wins CE Mark, eyes Europe, Canada Wireless remote monitoring company MedApps received ISO 13485:2003 and ISO 9001:2008 certification from Underwriters Laboratories, which subsequently led to CE Mark approval in the European Union and CMDCAS approval in Canada, enabling the company to market its products in two continents.

The 15 most popular wireless health stories of 2009 Our friends over at Mobihealthnews compiled the 15 most popular wireless health stories of last year. As expected, the iPhone dominated, but other big brands including Weight Watchers, Roche and Jitterbug also managed to please the crowd. And interviews with Johnson & Johnson company LifeScan, Scott Eising from the Mayo Clinic and Natalie Hodge (“the first iPhone doctor”) of Personal Pediatrics also made the grade.

Halo Monitoring inks deal with A&D Medical Halo Monitoring, a developer of wireless health remote monitoring technology, announced a deal with A&D Medical to build on the myHalo Web-based personal health monitoring system by including Bluetooth-enabled weight scales and blood pressure cuffs.

The 15 wireless health VC deals of 2009 There were 15 venture capital deals announced during 2009 and 11 of them were for wireless remote patient monitoring start-ups. The remainder included a start-up working on a converged platform for physicians-patient communications, a smartphone app developer focused on fitness games, a call-in physician consultation service, and a tablet-based patient check-in device for physician offices.

Brian Dolan is editor of MobiHealthNews, the emerging wireless health industry’s daily monitor.