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Combining health tracking with incentives, rewards, and challenges can contribute to consumers' lowered blood pressure, according to a study that looked at historical data from higi, a health kiosk company.

In its most recent S Health app update, Samsung added support for all Samsung smartphones, starting with the Galaxy S3.

Fitbit Surge Fitbit's Corporate Wellness arm officially became a HIPAA compliant platform, announced Target as a new client, which will offer Fitbits to its 335,000 US employees, and showed off a new software offering that will facilitate fitness competitions among employees in large, distributed companies.

Mountain View-based iHealth Lab, subsidiary of China’s Andon Health, has unveiled a new connected scale, called iHealth Core: Wireless Body Composition Scale (HS6), as well as an upgraded version of the companion app, iHealth MyVitals.

Philips diabetes self-care app with integrated virtual community Philips has unveiled a mobile diabetes monitoring system, developed in partnership with Netherlands-based Radboud University Medical Center and Salesforce, for people with type 1 diabetes.

It's been almost a year since AliveCor began offering its first FDA-cleared algorithm, its atrial fibrillation detection algorithm, to customers.

Waltham, Massachusetts-based emotions analytics company Affectiva has launched a new offering, called Emotion as a Service, that allows organizations to track the emotions of people interacting with their digital product or service.

Jawbone has unveiled a new Yves Behar-designed band design for its UP2 tracking device and announced a new firmware update for a few of its fitness tracking devices that will enable new heart rate and sleep tracking features.

SportSetter, which offers an app that helps people find workout classes in their city, has raised $1 million in a round of funding led by Reaktor Fund.

In Topol and Kish's formulation, individual health data will feed into big data breakthroughs.