Digital Health Round Up: Telemedicine in Space, another “Uber of Medicine”, and goodbye Jawbone

iMedicalApps Digital Health Round Up: Interesting stories for physicians and other clinicians.

Telemedicine — in space?

In zero gravity, medical care is of the utmost importance. That’s why NASA utilizes telemedicine to manage their astronauts’ health. The Harvard Business Review reports on how they plan on using it for interplanetary missions in the future, and how it’s important to develop for underserved areas terrestrially in the present.

Jawbone is down for the count

As Jawbone liquidates, the CEO is starting a health-tracking hardware and software company. Engadget wonders if this foreshadows the demise of wearables.

CareCloud launches telemedicine platform

Health-tech company CareCloud announced that they’d be offering a telemedicine and “one-click solutions” to make mHealth more accessible to doctors. (The Miami Herald)

The Harvard Computational Epidemiologist advising Uber, Amazon, and Apple

CNBC profiles one Harvard researcher who has consulted top tech industry leaders on health-tech who believes that “most of the big tech companies will jump on the health tech bandwagon in coming years.”