MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Apple (NSDQ:AAPL) is driving home its growing partnership with the healthcare industry by lending its new HealthKit iPhone application to researchers at Stanford and Duke Universities.
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Digital health: Medtronic launches heart-monitoring patch
Global Kinetics’s wearable KinetiGraph helps diagnose Parkinson’s disease
FDA medtech regulators put the stamp of approval on Global Kinetic Corp.’s Personal KinetiGraph, a wearable device designed to help physicians diagnose symptoms of Parkinson’s disease and other movement-based disorders.
Press Release: Global Kinetics Corporation announces FDA clearance of the Personal KinetiGraph for assessment of Parkinson’s Disease symptoms
Blackberry unveils the medtech smartphone | MassDevice.com On Call
MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Beleaguered smartphone maker BlackBerry (NSDQ:BBRY) is diving headlong into digital health with a new smartphone platform focused on medical professionals.
Blackberry allied with NantHealth, which makes medical device interoperability systems, to develop a service platform designed to aggregate data from thousands of devices in order to generate insight into the spread of disease.
It’s official: Apple announces smartwatch, complete with health and fitness tracking
Smart inhaler maker raises $14.5M
Propeller Health is ready for big things, having just raised $14.5 million and hired an operations chief to lead a new San Francisco office.
Apple clamps down on health app privacy rules | MassDevice.com On Call
Word on the street: Apple’s meeting with major healthcare groups | MassDevice.com On Call
Are device makers falling behind in the digital revolution?
The healthcare space is getting a major influx of digital innovation, but much of it’s coming from outside the traditional parameters of the industry.
Wearable Intelligence raises $8M for healthcare Google Glass
San Francisco-based Wearable Intelligence is just about $500,000 shy of closing a recent equity funding round in support of its mobile computing systems, according to the company’s SEC filing.