health apps

She Matters app now helps Black women with a variety of postpartum health issues

When She Matters co-founder Jade Kearney launched her company while a graduate student at NYU, she was looking to train psychologists to be culturally sensitive to the needs of Black women experiencin

Talkspace-owned Lasting launches new ‘Parenting Guide’ app, its latest self-guided advice service

Lasting, which is owned by mobile therapy company Talkspace, has launched a new app aimed at parents. The app, which is called Parenting Guide from Lasting, is designed to help parents become more con

Founder of She Matters developed an app for Black women with postpartum depression

Jade Kearney was experiencing postpartum depression when her daughter was six months old. She was trying to complete her second masters at NYU, while dealing with a mental health crisis and a dearth o

Little Otter raises $22M to scale its personalized pediatric mental health platform

Little Otter, a digital mental health company that aims to provide tools and treatment for both children and their families, has raised $22 million in Series A funding. The round was oversubscribed an

AI chatbot maker Babylon Health attacks clinician in PR stunt after he goes public with safety concerns

U.K. startup Babylon Health pulled app data on a critical user in order to create a press release in which it publicly attacks the UK doctor who has spent years raising patient safety concerns about t

K Health raises $25M for its AI-powered primary care platform

K Health, the startup providing consumers with an AI-powered primary care platform, has raised $25 million in Series B funding. The round was led by 14W, Comcast Ventures and Mangrove Capital Partners

HealthUnlocked support social network app goes global

Long time UK-based health-focused social network HealthUnlocked has launched its first mobile app, aiming to boost access to its global community and feed more data into machine learning matching algo

Y Combinator-backed mindfulness app Simple Habit raises $2.5 million

Mindfulness app Simple Habit was built to help users relieve stress and build healthier lives with more than 1,000 guided meditation sessions available to users. To continue growing, the company has r

UK healthcare products regulator in talks with Google/DeepMind over its Streams app

An app being made by DeepMind, the Google-owned AI company, working in collaboration with the NHS Royal Free Trust in London and being used to help identify hospital patients who might be at risk of a

Heal Wants To Be The ‘Uber’ For Doctors Making House Calls

Three Free Healthcare Apps That Empower Patients

The <a href="http://www.imedicalapps.com/2012/02/physician-adoption-mobile-devices-outpacing-software-development/">significant adoption of smartphones</a> among physicians has not only led to an expl

The Rise of Nimble Medicine

In the New Yorker, Dr. Atul Gawande outlined how, at the turn of the 20th century, more than forty per cent of household income went to paying for food and food production consumed nearly half the wor

Market For Mobile Health Apps Projected To Quadruple To $400 Million By 2016

The latest healthtech research shows that the forecast is looking good for mobile health solutions, especially for those companies buying into mobile apps. ABI Research recently <a href="http://www.ma