Eric Wicklund

Wearable sensors, social media and Google Glass all figure in an analyst's forecast for the year ahead in mHealth.

With new funding and partnerships, WiserTogether is ready to take its Wiser Health Platform to the next level - and bring crowd-sourcing into the national healthcare lexicon.

Alere Connect receives the OK to market its new HomeLink hub to consumers in the United States and Europe. The company hopes over-the-counter sales will help push adoption of the complete home monitoring solution to physicians and health plans as well.

Consumer-directed healthcare will create unique opportunities for those providers capable of adapting.

Consumers want their health data and they want it now. And if their doctors aren't helping them get it, they'll find someone else who will.

A skullcap marketed by a sports apparel manufacturer contains a small sensor that could change the way concussions are detected, and bridge the gap between wearable sensors and a skeptical medical community.

Judging by the growth in personal health and fitness devices and floor space devoted to them, consumer-directed mobile health and wellness are amid an uptick.

A new mHealth service aims to focus on seniors' activity patterns and location, bypassing the more complex vital signs collection process and helping adult caregivers focus on what they want and need.

Scripps tested a new mobile device against the stalwart Holter monitor and found what might become a new "standard for capturing the culprit heart rhythm electrical disturbance."

Telecure is seeing success with its $25-per-consultation formula, and wants to spread the news – and expand the program to other states.