Connected Health Conference is only weeks away

Check out these events leading up to the conference:

• Twitter Chat: Virtual Reality in Healthcare – An Untapped Resource? on 9/26 Noon ET. With Brennan Spiegel and Amanda Green. See Amanda's blog post A Patient’s Perspective on Virtual Reality
• Fuel Health Longevity with Digital Tech - a webinar with Joe Kvedar on October 5 at 12:30 EST

Also, new blog posts:

• Death of Digital Health? Action has Shifted to Personal Connected Health - also see Digital health is dead, says this health-tech investor and Is Digital Health Dead? The Next Wave: Big Data & Artificial Intelligence Collaboration From Pharma to Care Delivery
• Wearables and Smart Watches Becoming Powerful Tools for Health

Latest Headlines

Fitbit is teaming up with Dexcom for glucose monitoring on the Ionic Smartwatch

Good to see major players making life easier for those with Type 1 Diabetes.

Tim Cook offers a glimpse of Apple’s healthcare future

May include more uses for the Apple Watch in promoting health and wellness.

Digital Health Innovators, Pay Attention: AliveCor Just Became The Standard For Success

The provocative story on Forbes by John Nosta talks about how this company has set a new bar for how to innovate in healthcare. The founder said: "Lead with data, not press releases. No health-care knowledge leads to no understanding of the criticality of clinical validation. And that, leads to no success. AliveCor is built on clinical data — we are used at many of the best medical centers and have over 80 clinical validation publications."

Parkinson’s Disease Digital Biomarker DREAM Challenge

Good to see digital biomarkers as the basis for a challenge.

Read the full post here.