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The University of Washington (UW) has developed an app that helps detect sleep apnea, called ApneaApp.

Castlight's Mark Sarbiewski Castlight Health, a healthcare transparency company, announced that it had appointed Mark Sarbiewski as its new chief marketing officer.

Boston-based Ovuline, which offers two women's health apps, has released a number of statistics about the 1 million women that use their Ovia Pregancy app.

Durham, North Carolina-based health data platform company Validic has raised $12.

San Diego, California-based GreatCall, which makes easy to use smartphones and flip phones for seniors, has added automated fall detection to GreatCall Splash, the company's waterproof mobile personal emergency response (mPERS) device.

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.

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