Digital Health

Some look for current health expertise on the Internet because it takes an average of 17 years for research evidence to reach clinical practice.

The ubiquity of smartphones has made health data more accessible to patients and their families, as well as in some cases increasing treatment options.

Wearables—Internet-connected eye wear, smartwatches and gesture-controlled devices—will become commonplace in both corporate and industrial settings by 2020.

Fitbit files for an initial public offering and the company outlines how corporate wellness programs are likely to be a tricky but strong avenue for growth.

Your tattoo can prevent the Apple Watch from sending notifications, placing calls and using Apple Pay.

A startup is working on D Free, a new wearable device which notifies users minutes before they need to use the restroom.

The FDA confirmed that it'll take a hands-off approach to most medical device data systems, software that conveys data to and from a medical device.

Life sciences is an area fraught with risk, which investors have varying appetites for.

The fitness industry is responding to this generation's perceptions by thinking differently. "We need to make group fitness interesting to the Millennial generation," says Barbara Ebersberger, vice president of studio business at Reebok, which recently partnered with group-fitness programming leader Les Mills on a new studio-programming concept. "They grew up with Wii and Xbox, and they are looking for a form of exercise that shares those experiences. They think about studio fitness as something that their moms were doing."

Remember wearables? Those wristbands and glasses that were going to take over our lives? This time last year, many of us had high hopes that 2014 was..

Pavlov and his dogs proved conditioning shapes behavior patterns. A hundred years later, a startup called Pavlok hopes the same theory and its..

These 9 medical wearables are about to significantly impact the future of breast cancer, smoking and more.

Although Jawbone, Withings, and iHealth are on board with HealthKit, Misfit Shine and Basis are not yet integrated. Basis posted a noncommittal response on its own forum, and Misfit connects to Health, but sends only step data as of now. Were other big wearables to follow Fitbit’s lead, Apple could find itself with a pretty unattractive product on its phones, and the Health app could become as irrelevant as Apple Maps, at least to fitness-oriented users.

The Web makes health-related information almost universally accessible, but Googling your medical symptoms does not necessarily end in a resolution.

Wearable fitness tracking devices have become big business. Estimates are that 22 million will be sold this year and over half that number will be part of corporate wellness programs by 2018.1

Fitbit, which just filed for an IPO last week, is fighting back after a lawsuit claims its sleep tracking features are not accurate.

As it embarks on a mission to strap its products to your body, CEO Tim Cook says health could be the company's "biggest" frontier.

Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank talks about why he's buying the MyFitnessPal and Endomondo apps for a total of about $560 million.

Feb. 19 -- Eric Casaburi, founder and CEO of Retro Fitness, discusses how apps and wearables are changing fitness with Bloomberg's Pimm Fox on “Taking Stock.

The US healthcare system is in the midst of a large-scale transformation, and as a result, the floodgates have opened for a number of technology-enabled collaborative models of care. One example is virtual care. Many healthcare stakeholders see a variety of virtual care—sometimes known as remote care—models as an important way to reduce healthcare costs and improve efficiency, according to a new eMarketer report.

Living in a data-driven, quantified-self world, it’s easy to understand the appeal of gadgets that log daily activities and workouts. For many, the devices are clearly a plus, but exercise specialists warn that dependence or improper use can render the equipment counterproductive or possibly lead to injury.

Much like the athletes Under Armour serves, shares of the company's stock are gaining strength in Wednesday's after-hours trading session. The upward move is for good reason: not only did Under Armour post higher-than-expected top and bottom line fourth quarter results, but it also announced that it will acquire MyFitnessPal, the maker of a popular calorie-counting and fitness-tracking app.

When Google announced it was ending the Glass Explorer program yesterday and handing over the reins to Nest's Tony Fadell, it seemed to exit with more of a..

The ONC has awarded a contract to RTI International to develop a roadmap for a controversial health IT safety center, the two entities announced today. The North Carolina-based nonprofit research organization will assist ONC in defining the focus, functions, governance and value of the center, an idea proposed in 2011 on the heels of an Institute of Medicine report evaluating the safety and efficiency of health IT.