BodyMedia

Mobile health monitoring company BodyMedia raises $2.7M

Mobile health monitoring company BodyMedia, which makes an armband that captures health data from users, has raised $2.7 million of an anticipated $10 million round. The funding for Pittsurgh-based BodyMedia comes from four investors, with the first sale occurring on March 13, according to a regulatory document. When worn all day, BodyMedia’s FIT armbands measure […]

Digital health apps for smartphones from head to toe

Will digital health apps and devices for smartphones become so indispensable that we wonder how we functioned without them? Or do they risk becoming part of an enormous data avalanche? Those questions were raised in a recent article examining digital health by Fast Company that maps smartphone apps and devices across a human body. AliveCor […]