Senseonics, a Germantown, Maryland-based company working on a longterm implantable continuous glucose monitor, announced preliminary results from its US pivotal trial, a major step toward receiving premarket approval from the FDA, on the same day as the company's second quarter earnings call.
"We are at a significant point of change for not only acceptance and utilization but the recognition by...
Every quarter, MobiHealthNews rounds up the biggest digital health news related to healthcare provider news, health insurance and employer-related news, in addition to pharma news. We also track the quarterly reports from relevant public companies, plus we round up funding, M&A and FDA clearance announcements. Read on below for a quick table of contents for our various second quarter recap...
In the second quarter, WebMD began testing a new app and, in the face of declining traffic in the form of Google-referrals, increased its focus on driving internal traffic. While there was a slight decline in the number of users, page views were actually up, which WebMD attributed to efforts to engage users to spend more time on the site with increased programming and social media. The company...
Garmin's fitness wearable business is heating up, accounting for 26 percent of the company’s overall growth thanks to the launch of several new wearables and increasing downloads on the company’s Connect IQ app store.
Garmin’s fitness segment grew 34 percent, with revenue for 2016’s second quarter at $213 million, compared with $159 million in Q2 2015. THe company's gross profit margin was...
We’ve compiled a list of our FDA-related coverage for first half of 2016. Eighteen companies received clearance for their devices, one was declined, and one group of patients published an editorial about their relationship with the FDA. Also this year, the FDA came out with some new guidance about how medical device makers should make data available to patients.
Read on for our roundup of...
There was a time when a quarter's worth of pharma news in digital health would have meant news from a small handful of players. But this quarter, news has come from lots of different companies, demonstrating that adoption of digital health in the pharma world has breadth, even if we're still looking for depth. Read on for the quarter's biggest pharma partnerships, app launches, connected device...
As we do every quarter, MobiHealthNews has rounded up our Q2 2016 coverage into a handful of longform stories. This section is on funding. In the second quarter of 2016, MobiHealthNews tracked funding for health tech companies that totaled about $500 million, not including an $80 million raise from tech-savvy health insurance company Bright Health, which is given an honorable mention at the end...
