fitness apps

Notch launches to creatively visualize data captured by consumer fitness devices

8 days ago by
mHealth

Notch launches smartphone app for creating beautiful infographics out of the personal activity data collected using consumer fitness devices.

US Surgeon General announces winners of its Healthy Apps Challenge

Feb 29, 2012 by
mHealth News
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The winners of the Surgeon General’s Healthy Apps Challenge, first launched at the mHealth Summit in December, were announced last week. The four winning apps were selected from three categories: Healthy Eating/Nutrition Physical Fitness/Activity Integrative Health/Well-being These four apps represent a range of imaginative solutions to encourage people make better food choices, exercise more and adopt healthier lifestyles. They also show that the federal government sees mobile technologies as a viable means of improving public health.

Gympact takes a different approach to healthy incentives: get fit or get fined

Digital Health Startups with iMedicalApps
Feb 08, 2012 by
mHealth
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GymPact wants to incentivize your exercise using serious financial rewards, both positive and negative, to force compliance with workout regimen.

Nike announces Nike+ Fuelband to measure everything

Jan 24, 2012 by
mHealth News
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Nike unveiled the Nike+ Fuelband which can distinguish between different types of physical activity to assign users a daily “fuel” score.

mHealth downloads expected to reach 44 million by 2012, exponentially growing to 142 million by 2016

Dec 01, 2011 by
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A Juniper Research report forecasts mHealth downloads to reach 44 million by next year and 142 million downloads globally by 2016.

Health and wellness dominates 2011 Bluetooth Innovation World Cup

Nov 30, 2011 by
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Five of the nine finalists in the 2011 Bluetooth Innovation World Cup are developing useful and imaginative health and fitness related applications using new Bluetooth low energy technology.

Health and fitness apps expected to grow to $400 million, according to ABI research

Nov 28, 2011 by
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According to ABI research, the sports and health mobile application market will grow to over $400 million in 2016 – up from just $120 million in 2010, though this may even be less than we should have expected.

Rock Health index of digital health startups

Digital Health Startups with iMedicalApps
Nov 17, 2011 by
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Rock Health, the San Francisco health care incubator, has published a great list of digital health startups on their website that deserves to be shared.