We’re finally getting to some of the promise of connected health with the launch of ResearchKit, a framework announced at the Apple event Monday that allows medical researchers to take advantage… Read more »
One in 19 people in this world have diabetes. Many of them are poor, live outside of the US and have access to very little resources, both financial and medical. I… Read more »
In the future, patients and doctors will monitor health with data collected constantly inside the body and beamed directly to their mobile device or computer. Read more »
A number of health tech companies are using online and mobile platforms to help fight and prevent diabetes. But a review of several trials says that computer-based interventions have mixed outcomes. Read more »
With $4.7 million in new funding, Omada Health says it will support its online program that helps people with prediabetes lower their risk, as well as expand into other disease categories. Read more »
Mobile diabetes-management startup Glooko has hired its first CEO, former Intuit Health executive Rick Altinger, launched a new product in the U.S. and recently received FDA clearance to sell its products… Read more »
San Francisco-based Omada Health, a graduate of health startup accelerator Rock Health, on Tuesday launched its first product aimed at helping people with prediabetes reduce their risk of developing the chronic… Read more »
Diabetes is one of the fastest spreading diseases in modern society. Medication solves only half the problem – the trick is to constantly monitor sugar levels and one’s lifestyle. Now a… Read more »
Connectivity changes everything. That’s the credo driving just about every corner of our day-to-day lives. As human beings, we are now connected to one another through not just our social networks… Read more »
The recent release of the iPad is also beginning to make waves in the medical arena as the high-resolution screen enables medical imaging applications. Stanford University School of Medicine, for instance,… Read more »