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Los Angeles-based Heal, which has developed an app that helps people send a doctor to their house, has launched its service in San Francisco.

Scanadu has raised $35 million from Fosun International and Tencent Holdings Limited, with participation from China Broadband Capital and iGlobe Partners of Singapore.

Toronto-based InteraXon has raised $11 million for its smartphone-connected brainwave sensing device, called Muse, according to an SEC filing.

The NPD Group is predicting that 9 percent of American adults will own a smartwatch by the fourth quarter of 2016.

Mayo Clinic's Apple Watch app for doctors As the Apple Watch begins to find its way into the hands of consumers, it's also becoming clearer that there's a lot of interest in the health features of the device.

Seed fund Rock Health has invested in three new companies: telepsychiatry service 1DocWay, provider analytics company Arsenal Health, and wearable technology maker Caeden.

Xerox's Tamara StClaire says telehealth fills all the needs of the connected consumer of the future, while most apps will fall away because they don't integrate well with the healthcare system.

A survey of more than 1,000 consumers from ON World showed that fitness is the most important application for wearable users.

Somerville, Massachusetts-based eye diagnostic tool maker EyeNetra has launched a new service called Blink, which brings eye tests to the patient, in New York City.

A retrospective matched-pair cohort study of 348 patients in Partners HealthCare's Boston-area hospitals shows that remote monitoring in congestive heart failure patients can reduce 120-day hospitalizations and mortality.