UnitedHealthcare Rewards members can earn up to $1,000 per year by meeting daily activity goals, tracking sleep and fulfilling other one-time health activities. The program is intended to incentivize healthy habits, the insurer said.
Lumen sells a handheld device that measures users’ metabolism through breath and connects to an app that helps track goals and provides nutrition coaching. The funding round was led by Pitango Venture Capital, and included participation from Hanwha Group and Resolute Ventures.
Canada has a proud history of achievement in the areas of science and technology, and the field of biomanufacturing and life sciences is no exception.
The payer will offer its Motion well-being program members access, at no additional cost, to Apple Fitness+ workout classes for six months.
Participants in the insurer's Motion wearables wellness program can use their program rewards to purchase up to a $300 version of the Apple Watch 3.
Five connected health and fitness startups make up the first class of Johns Hopkins' M-1 Ventures accelerator, which has support from regional groups such as the University of Maryland and the family office of Under Armour CEO and Chairman Kevin Plank — Plank Industries.
As I said at the close of the first day of ENGAGE, I heard this phrase much more often than I expected to: We have to meet people where they are. I am surprised at how fast this “how do we get employees to be healthy?” conversation has shifted, even since ENGAGE 2013. The focus […]
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If tech startups like Paofit have their way, people will no longer be able to cite boredom as an excuse not to exercise. Paofit is combining high-definition video with avatars and mobile technology to turn the treadmill into a virtual reality experience that takes runners and walkers through courses all over the world. The app, […]
Since wearable health technologies seem to have found the most traction in a slice of the population with a great interest in being healthy, it makes sense that many Olympic athletes used sensors, algorithms and data to get themselves in top shape for the event. Here are a few examples: Data-obsessed Alpine skier Steven Nyman […]
Like enterprise health IT, the consumer health tech world is facing a bit of an interoperability crisis of its own. Mobile health apps and self-tracking devices – thought of by many as key tools for keeping people healthy and engaged in a post-reform healthcare system – have so far become staples in the lives of […]
Underneath all of the chatter about the new fingerprint scanner on the next iteration of the iPhone that Apple unveiled yesterday, there’s another new feature that some are saying could make the iPhone 5S the “ultimate tracking device”. The phone will contain what Apple calls the M7 “motion coprocessor” to continuously collect data from the […]
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
Mainstream consumer health doesn’t need Apple. There are new self-tracking apps and devices being devised every day to satisfy even the most hardcore quantified selfer. The issue isn’t that there aren’t enough devices in the market; it’s that not many people are using them. That’s why Apple is well-poised to succeed if it wades into […]
One man’s heart sensor could be another man’s fitness tracker. The possibilities are many when it comes to the Angel Sensor, a wearable device whose developers have coined it “the first open sensor for health and fitness.” It’s still in the works, but the vision is for the device to be a wristband that measures […]
With a fresh round of investment, new clients and new hires, Keas is moving even closer to world domination of corporate wellness thanks to a social focus instead of the standard, boring portal approach. Two existing investors, Ignition Partners and Atlas Venture, are putting $8 million more into the company. It sounds like the investors […]
Waiting for lab results was the second biggest patient gripe in a recent Consumer Reports survey of patients. Now there is a free solution to that hassle: WellnessFX is offering its direct-to-you blood test results for free. The company is celebrating its third birthday by launching the new eCheckup product. Instead of getting bloodwork done […]
Motivating people to change their health behaviors is a tricky feat, but people sure are trying. In fact, the number of fitness tracking applications and workplace wellness companies that exist today is staggering, to the point where I simply can’t keep track of them all anymore. So many of them are so similar, too, using […]