HealthUnlocked, the leading social network for health related information in the UK, today announces its official launch in the  U.S. The digital health company, founded in 2010 by CEO Jorge Armanet and Chief Medical Officer Dr Matt Jameson Evans, is one of the fastest growing startups in the UK health tech sector, growing exponentially since 2011 and last month received three million site visits. HealthUnlocked already provides NHS Choices’ user-generated, interactive content via the
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Today, Symplur, LLC unveiled their new social healthcare intelligence platform called Symplur Signals in Paris at the Doctors 2.0 & You conference last month and is targeting July 14th as the official launch date. Known was the highly popular Healthcare Hashtag Project, Symplur maintains the largest database of healthcare related Twitter conversations in existence. Large healthcare organizations, academic institutions, and medical associations wishing to gain business intelligence or to
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Wearables, devices used to sense data and process it into information, are generating quite the buzz in healthcare these days. But down the line, does that buzz come with a sting? In Wearable Tech News, Tony Rizzo reports wearable technology spending predictions of $50 billion by 2018. He also reports on a ground-breaking, glucose-sensing contact lens for diabetics that will be a “true solution for a very real medical problem that affects hundreds of millions of people.” By 2016,
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  Only 4% of U.S. broadband households plan to purchase a smart watch in 2014, up only 2% from 2013, according to recent research including a Q1 2014 survey of 10,000 broadband households by Parks Associates. The key findings from the research show that Samsung is currently leading the smart watch market. 
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Matthew Zachary, patient activist and founder and CEO of Stupid Cancer says digital health innovators must seek and incorporate patient input to succeed. In May 2014, my firm, Enspektos, LLC held a unique 3-day all-Web conference, digihealth pulse Virtual 2014 (DHPV 2014).  During the event, more than 25 innovators, entrepreneurs, patients and others came together to provide useful and actionable insights, data and advice to health executives who attended the conference.  DHPV 2014 was
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After five years, the FDA finally issued social media guidance outlining how drugmakers and medical device makers should utilize social media for their products/services. The guidance was issued to ensure that the information provided by pharma related companies is accurate and will help empower patients to make better informed decisions managing their health. 
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