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MyNetDiary's popular food tracking app When it comes to weight loss, a simple food tracking application like MyNetDiary or MyFitnessPal might be a much better investment than $100 Fitbit or Jawbone device, at least according to newly released data from the Activity Exchange, a startup that aggregates health tracking data for payers, employers, and providers.

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

An estimated 330 million smartwatches will ship worldwide by 2018, up from less than 4 million in 2013, according to a recent projection from research firm ON World.

Aetna will soon launch a new mobile-based offering, called NeoCare, for members who are new parents with infants in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs).

  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).