Apple Watch

The new feature will give users reminders about administering insulin or bolus. 

Wearables do well for Apple.

Look to the skies.

The United States Patent Office has published a patent from Apple, filed December 18 of last year and not yet granted, for a "sunscreen detector" that could be incorporated into the Apple Watch or the iPhone and could even include augmented reality functionality.

Unlike other years, health wasn't a major focus at this year's WWDC Apple developer conference keynote — the talk didn't feature a single reference to HealthKit, CareKit, or ResearchKit, in fact.

Last week Medibio, a company focused on how biometric markers impact mental health, launched a new app that integrates with the Apple Watch.

Digital health was a topic of discussion this week at the Heart Rhythm Society Scientific Sessions in Boston as researchers and clinicians from around the world presented their most recent study results.

Trumbull, Connecticut-based FallCall Solutions has raised a sub-$1 million seed round from Connecticut Ventures to develop a pure software-based Personal Emergency Response System (PERS) for the Apple Watch.

Innovators compete.

Smartwatches were able to detect atrial fibrillation when paired with a deep neural network, according to a study published today in JAMA.