Jawbone founder Hosain Rahman raises $65 million for revived company
Last year, Rahman told Recode that he was reviving the company as Jawbone Health, moving the focus of the company away from fitness tracking and toward remote patient monitoring.
Last year, Rahman told Recode that he was reviving the company as Jawbone Health, moving the focus of the company away from fitness tracking and toward remote patient monitoring.
The reformed company, which has about 110 employees compared to 600 at Jawbone's peak, has found new life as a medical subscription service that founder Hosain Rahman describes as a "check-engine light" for humans.
In a new analysis, Accenture dives deeper into digital health funding. The assessment includes a prediction that annual investment in digital health startups will reach $7 billion by the end of 2017.
Jawbone founder Hosain Rahman is reported to have liquidated wearables business Jawbone but launched another company Jawbone Health.
The Up liquidation may represent a pause or a clearing of the deck. Another report Friday said that Jawbone is working on a "Hail Mary" product, a clinical-grade wearable.
What does the future really look like for the wearables market?
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Jawbone plans to take its case up with the International Trade Commission to halt imports of Fitbit components and products.
I don’t think our Bay Area health IT reporter Dan Verel wears a Jawbone UP. If he did, he would have been in the minority of the Napa/Sonoma/Vallejo/Berkley users who didn’t wake up during the Sunday morning earthquake in Northern California. When I texted him yesterday to make sure he was OK, he replied, “Yup, […]
One critique of wearables I heard recently was a side note to the “it’s always the healthiest people in the room” issue. David Inns, CEO of GreatCall, named one of the challenges to widespread adoption of wearable technology: Where do you buy these things? Obviously people who want to optimize their workout or figure out […]