How big data is helping aspiring moms crack the fertility code
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Startup Ovuline uses machine learning to make sense of women’s health data and help couples conceive. Read more »
Jawbone buys BodyMedia to go big in wearable technology and health tracking
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Jawbone has acquired health tracking pioneer BodyMedia in a deal valued at north of $100 million. Read more »
Personalizing health online: where can you go for medical information that matches you?
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By gathering personal health data, companies like HealthTap and WebMD are looking to customize health information online. Read more »
Tictrac opens up to help make health tracking more mainstream
Tictrac, a startup that helps people aggregate data from various tracking devices, apps and other non-health tools, this week opened to the public. Read more »
Basis raises $11.5M for health-tracking wristwatch, adds Deepak Chopra to advisory board
Basis Science has raised a $11.5 million for its wristband that uses sensors to track several health indicators. The company also said that Esther Dyson and Deepak Chopra had joined its advisory board. Read more »
70 percent of Americans track their health, but most go low-tech
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A new report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project indicates that 7 in 10 American adults tracks a health indicator like weight, diet, exercise or a symptom. But half say they track “in their heads” and about a fifth use technology. Read more »
With $8M, Retrofit focuses on data, not dieting, to help people lose weight
Retrofit, a Chicago-based company offering a data-driven, expert-led weight loss system, on Tuesday announced that it had raised $8 million in Series A funding, led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson and including Correlation Ventures and Hyde Park Angels. Read more »
Note to startups: Don’t forget the ‘skinny jeans’ health trackers
Health tracking doesn’t need to involve high-tech apps and devices. According to early results from a Pew Internet & American Life Project study, 7 in 10 Americans could be considered self-trackers, if you consider those who monitor health with notebooks, journals and mental notes. Read more »
Will monitoring our health be like managing a stock portfolio?
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Stephen Wolfram, the scientist and innovator behind Wolfram Alpha and Mathematica, has spent decades tracking his personal information. As the collection of personal data becomes more mainstream, he believes people could watch their health in a manner similar to how they manage their financial portfolios. Read more »
Healthrageous nabs $6.5M for personalized data-driven health support
Healthrageous, a Boston-based startup, has raised $6.5 million in Series B funding to enhance its mobile and desktop platform that gives patients a personalized, data-driven way to track and improve their health. Read more »
Need a nutrition-tracking app? Try MyFitnessPal
After recently capping my running streak at 425 days and buying a Bluetooth 4.0 heart monitor, I’m adding more mobile tech to my health-tracking obsession by tracking daily nutrition on my smartphone. After some research, I settled on the free MyFitnessPal app. Here’s why. Read more »
Strava for iOS and Android: Gold medal app or a bust?
As a daily runner, I use mobile tech to track exercise so I can learn more about what training methods are working compared to those that aren’t. Strava Run, for both iOS and Android, is a mobile application I recently tested. Is it a winner? Read more »
RunKeeper races ahead with 9 new app partners
RunKeeper announced nine new partner software titles on Monday, bringing the total number of compatible apps to 45. RunKeeper’s “secret sauce” is its HealthGraph effort, a method for health-tracking apps and devices to speak to each other in the same language. Read more »
