Health devices were a bigger deal at CES last year: After compiling a thorough roundup of health device news from CES 2015, the MobiHealthNews team has concluded that last year's event had bigger and more novel launches. While 2014 was the year that big consumer technology companies debuted health devices and a majority of CES attendees seemed to discover digital health for the first time, this...
This Thursday MobiHealthNews will be hosting our 2014 year-in-review webinar. The past year has been an important one for mobile and digital health. New consumer health offerings from the world's biggest tech companies, a record number of acquisitions, billions in investment dollars, apparent FDA de-regulation, and much, much more made the past 12 months eventful.
With the need for better patient...
The MobiHealthNews team spent the past week at HIMSS' mHealth Summit, which was located just outside of Washington D.C. In case you missed the event or were too busy to follow along while you were there and could use a review, we've got you covered. The in-depth report that follows is a collection of some of the more provocative comments we heard both on-stage and off. We've also rounded up much...
Despite the third quarter including two usually sleepy summer months, plenty of digital health news broke between July and the start of October. (Download a PDF version of this report right here.)
1. Mergers and acquisitions
M&A activity stayed strong with eight such deals -- only one less than Q2's nine M&A deals.
HCA buys PatientKeeper: The most recent acquisition deal -- just last week...
Last week MobiHealthNews broke the news that Aetna had decided to shutdown its high-profile, health tracking and data aggregation platform CarePass by the end of the year. After we reported on two CarePass leaders recent departures from the company, Aetna confirmed its long-rumored plans. For many the shutdown of CarePass was no surprise at all, while others were shocked. Still other commenters...
The second quarter of the year is oftentimes a slow one as the summer months approach, but Q2 2014 was surprisingly busy for digital health on all fronts. Investment dollars are up. FDA clearances averaged two per month and a surprising FDA deregulation proposal dropped during the quarter, too. M&A was even stronger than it was in Q1, which was already a record quarter for such deals....
After MobiHealthNews spotted and reported on the departure of two Aetna executives on the CarePass team, Aetna has confirmed exclusively to MobiHealthNews that it will be phasing out the platform, and that the previously announced employer pilots will not be going forward.
"At this time, we have decided to make no further investments in the CarePass platform," an Aetna spokesperson told...
This year MobiHealthNews started publishing longer form pieces each Friday -- both as our dedicated newsletter edition that day and as an "In-Depth" feature on our publication's site. So far our editorial team has put together a dozen of these reports on a fairly wide variety of topics. In case you missed any, here's a quick recap of our In-Depths to date:
In-Depth: The MobiHealthNews CES 2014...
For the past few years MobiHealthNews has published quarterly reports on the state of mobile and digital health, but moving forward those paid reports will take the form of Friday Exclusives -- the Friday edition of our daily newsletter -- and In-Depths on our website. They will be free for all to read thanks to our generous sponsors and advertisers.
Last week we published our Q1 2014 review and...
The first three months of 2014 have proven to be eventful. Among arguably much more important events, Apple hired a whole lot of medical sensor experts for some unknown reason – most suspect for the rumored iWatch. More NBA players started wearing health tracking devices. The Google Flu Trends debacle got some scholarly attention. Disney helped launch a tooth brushing app for kids. Facebook...
