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  The most frequent user of health and fitness apps for iPhones are mostly mothers between the ages of 25 and 54 who are sports fans and who generally lead healthy lifestyles, according to a recent study that tracked 6,800 health and fitness apps and about 100,000 people who used them.

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

The updated Fitbit app tracks frequency of exercise on a calendar.

In the first half of 2014, digital health funding reached $2.

IBM's Watson has yet another new gig, and it could lead to a novel way for big data to interact with personalized healthcare.

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).

Image Source: Keller Sports' online store, which is showing the device as currently not for sale.

Three million patients around the world were using connected home medical monitoring devices in late 2013, but this number will jump to 19.

According to a recent report from ON World, in the next fives years an estimated 700 million wearable technology devices will ship worldwide, which will make for a $47.

This week Verizon launched a mobile-centric video visits product that physician groups and others can use to provide real-time, remote care to patients.