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Washington, DC-based modus health, a spin-off of a prosthesis company called Orthocare Innovations, has launched with the goal of creating a wearable activity tracker for clinical use.

Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has launched a pilot in which 700 mental health patients receive access to their therapists' notes on their laptop or smartphone, according to a must-read report in the New York Times.

New York City-based Mt.

Salt Lake City, Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare has released its second patient-facing app, called Intermountain Health Hub.

Events company Health 2.

Eighty percent of smartphone users are interested in using their smartphones to interact with health care providers, according to a FICO survey of 2,239 adult smartphone users from the UK, Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Russia, Turkey, and the United States.

Jonathan Jagoda presented the compact at ATA 2014 in Baltimore in May.

San Francisco-based patient education tool BetterDoctor raised $10 million, according to an SEC filing.

Paris-based KelDoc, an doctor appointment booking app, raised $1.

Facebook may be an effective medium to deliver theory-based weight loss content to college students, according to a randomized control trial of 404 students conducted by a group of researchers at the Center for Wireless and Population Health Systems, a division of The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2).