By Sarah Perez | May 31, 2018 At Google I/O in May, the company introduced a series of time management tools for Android users that help better manage screen time, track app usage, and limit the phone’s ability to distract, including a “shush” mode which turns on Do Not Disturb [...]
Eric Wicklund | May 21, 2018 North Carolina lawmakers are pushing ahead with a new bill to set payment and coverage parity standards for telehealth, while also requiring patient consent before any treatment. The bill, HB 967, follows up on legislation passed last year that called for a State Department [...]
By Les Masterson | May 9, 2018 Dive Brief: CMS on Tuesday announced its first Rural Health Strategy, which looks to improve access to and quality of care in rural areas. CMS Administrator Seema Verma said the effort looks to “apply a rural lens to the vision and work of the [...]
By Allan Maurer, WRAL TechWire | May 2, 2018 RALEIGH – The RIoT startup accelerator in Raleigh has selected 10 startup teams for its inaugural program. Applicants came from as far north as Maryland and as far South as Florida, says Tom Snyder, executive director of NC RIoT. Known as [...]
By Catherine Sturman | May 1, 2018 Present in over 80 countries worldwide, leading health wearables company Fitbit has announced its partnership with Google, where both parties will work together to transform the future of digital health and wearables by exploring the development of consumer and enterprise health solutions. The [...]
By Even Sweeney | April 4, 2018 After a historic year of digital health funding, investment dollars continued to pour in during the first quarter of the new year. Across the U.S. digital health funding reached $1.62 billion in Q1, according to data compiled by Rock Health. It was the [...]
