Aditi Pai

Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California launched an app, called Planned Parenthood Direct, that helps people order confidential STD testing kits, which arrive through the mail.

Heart rate-tracking wearable Health executives have already seen the benefits of patient-generated data, according to an Accenture survey of 601 doctors, 1,000 consumers, and 101 healthcare executives.

Los Angeles-based Heal, which has developed an app that helps people request a doctor to visit their house, raised $5 million from Slow Ventures, March Capital, Pritzker Capital, and angel investors.

Ashwin Pushpala, Founder, Sano Intelligence San Francisco-based Sano Intelligence, which is quietly developing a health-sensing wearable, has raised $10.

The National Cancer Institute has awarded Jonathan Bricker, a behavioral scientist and faculty member at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, with a five-year, $3.

New York City-based Smart Vision Labs, which has developed a smartphone-based autorefractor for vision testing, raised $6.

Patients with diabetes may be more likely benefit from a mobile phone-based health coaching program with remote monitoring than patients with heart disease, according to a study of 267 heart patients and 250 diabetes patients, which was conducted in 2012 by researchers in Finland and published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.

Dallas, Texas-based video visits company Teladoc has updated its IPO filing, which now discloses that the company plans to raise $119 million in its IPO, if it is priced at the high end of its range.

Australia-based Analytica has received FDA 510(k) clearance for PeriCoach, its smartphone-connected device that helps women monitor their pelvic floor exercises.

NHS England and the National Information Board (NIB) have announced that they will consider equipping all NHS facilities in England with free WiFi.