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Digital Health M&A in 2026: The Median Exit Takes 9.5 Years and a $7.7M Last Round
The IPO route is effectively closed and fewer companies are being funded at the same total dollars. If you are building in this category you are building an acquisition target, and the price is set by how long you would take to replicate.
Compliance
The Senate Rewrote HIPRA: AI Training Data Under HHS Rules, Consumer Disclosure Struck
Comparing the introduced bill to the reported one shows what the committee wanted. It removed the consumer disclosure and strengthened the AI provision from guidance to rulemaking.
Wearables
Non-Invasive Glucose Monitoring: Zero Cleared Devices, So Apple and Google Infer Instead
Direct sensing has produced no clearance in a decade. What reached consumers instead infers a pattern rather than measuring a value, through two regulatory doors that demand very different amounts of evidence.
Wearables
Can a Watch Detect Insulin Resistance? Google's Own Study Says It Misses 40% of Cases
The 0.80 auROC that gets quoted requires a lipid panel and a metabolic panel. The model that runs on the watch alone scores 0.70, with sensitivity 0.60, which at realistic prevalence means most flags are false and 40% of cases are missed.
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Digital Health M&A in 2026: The Median Exit Takes 9.5 Years and a $7.7M Last Round
StrategyHealth Data
The Senate Rewrote HIPRA: AI Training Data Under HHS Rules, Consumer Disclosure Struck
ComplianceHealth Data
Non-Invasive Glucose Monitoring: Zero Cleared Devices, So Apple and Google Infer Instead
WearablesHealth Data
Can a Watch Detect Insulin Resistance? Google's Own Study Says It Misses 40% of Cases
WearablesHealth Data
Is Your Health App a Medical Device? After the FDA's January Guidance, Your Marketing Page Decides
ComplianceFDA
How Much Health Data Fits in an LLM Context Window? One Night of Heart Rate Costs 32,000 Tokens
AIHealth Data
Can You Feed Wearable Data to an AI? Strava Says No, Garmin Says Yes, WHOOP Says Nothing
ComplianceAI
The EU AI Act for Health Apps: The August 2026 Deadline Moved, but One Obligation Started Anyway
ComplianceEU AI Act
Google Fit's APIs Shut Down at the End of 2026: What Actually Replaces Them
GoogleHealth Connect
Building a Health Data Pipeline: The Hard Parts Nobody Warns You About
Health DataDeveloper Tools
Where Oura's 95% Sleep Accuracy Claim Actually Comes From
SleepHealth Data
Apple, Google, Whoop, Oura: What Builds a Moat in Health Data
StrategyWearables
Step Counting Accuracy: Phone vs Wrist
StepsWearables
Sleep Stages Without a Wearable: What a Phone Can and Cannot Detect
SleepSmartphone Data
Health Connect Without a Wearable: What Android Gives Your App
Health ConnectAndroid
Apple Health Without an Apple Watch: What Your App Actually Receives
Apple HealthHealthKit
Digital Phenotyping: A Developer's Guide
Digital PhenotypingHealth Data
Smartphone vs Wearable Adoption by Region: The 2026 Numbers
Health DataWearables
Bloodwork Goes Consumer: What the Whoop, Oura & Function Lab-Testing Boom Means for Health Apps
Health DataBiomarkers
The Health App Metrics That Actually Predict Retention (DAU Isn't One)
Health DataProduct
Fitbit Web API Shutdown: What Breaks in September and How to Migrate to the Google Health API
FitbitGoogle
iOS 27 for Health & Fitness Developers: GymKit on iPhone, Camera Nutrition & HealthKit
AppleWearables
The Health AI Wars: Apple, Google, Samsung, and OpenAI Are Racing to Coach You — and Data, Not Models, Will Decide It
AIHealth Data
Orthosomnia: How Sleep Trackers Are Making Us Anxious About Sleep — and What Good Design Does Instead
SleepHealth Data
WWDC 2026: What Apple's Redesigned Health App, Better Sleep Tracking, and Delayed AI Coach Mean for Developers
AppleWearables
Apple Watch vs Oura Sleep Data: Why Wearables Disagree, and How to Build On It Anyway
WearablesSleep
Google Just Unified the Android Health Stack: What Google Health, the Gemini Coach, and FHIR Medical Records Mean for Developers
Health DataAndroid
Why Most Health App Users Churn Within 90 Days — And What the Data Says About Fixing It
StrategyHealth Data
Gamification and Behavioral Nudges in Health Apps: What Works, What Doesn't, and What Health Data Changes
GamificationEngagement
AI Health Coaching Is Here: How LLMs Trained on Wearable Data Are Replacing Generic Health Advice
AICoaching
Remote Patient Monitoring Is Going Consumer: How Wearables Are Crossing the Clinical Divide
Remote MonitoringWearables
Nutrition Tracking Is Getting a Data Upgrade: AI Food Scanning, Consumer CGMs, and the Convergence With Health Data
NutritionHealth Data
Digital Mental Health Is Moving Beyond Self-Report — How Behavioral Data From Phones and Wearables Is Changing the Game
Mental HealthBehavioral Data
Corporate Wellness Is Moving From Surveys to Passive Health Data — Here's What That Means
Employee WellnessHealth Data
The State of Women's Health Data in 2026: Why FemTech Is Digital Health's Biggest Gap — and Fastest-Growing Market
Women's HealthFemTech
How Longevity Apps Are Tracking Biological Age With Wearable Biomarkers
WellnessBiomarkers
From Reactive to Predictive: How AI Is Transforming Personal Health Analytics
AIHealth Data
The State of Wearable Health Data in 2026: Market Trends, Challenges, and What Comes Next
WearablesHealth Data
How Passive Health Data Collection Works on iOS and Android (Without a Wearable)
Health DataMobile
Data-Driven Personalization in Fitness Apps: From Generic Plans to Adaptive Coaching
WellnessPersonalization
Apple HealthKit vs Google Health Connect: What Developers Need to Know
Developer ToolsMobile
How Health Insurers Are Using Wearable Data to Cut Claims and Reward Prevention
InsuranceWearables
How GLP-1 Medications Are Reshaping Digital Health and Fitness
GLP-1Weight Management
HIPAA-Compliant Health Data APIs: A Checklist for Product Teams
Privacy & ComplianceHealth Data
Build vs Buy: The True Cost of Health Data Infrastructure
InfrastructureHealth Data
The Sleep Tech Market in 2026: Why Sleep Data Is the Most Valuable Metric in Consumer Health
SleepWearables
Connected Fitness and the Gym Tech Stack: How Health Data Is Reshaping the Fitness Club Industry
FitnessWearables
The Cold-Start Problem in Health Apps: How to Personalize Before You Have Data
ProductRetention
Sahha Ships Rebuilt Data Pipeline and Overhauled SDKs Across All Platforms
AnnouncementDeveloper Tools
How to Deduplicate Health Data Across Wearables: A Developer's Guide
Developer ToolsHealth Data
How to Normalize Wearable Data Across Providers: A Developer's Guide
Developer ToolsHealth Data
Wearables, Nearables, and Ambient: A Field Guide to Health-Tracking Devices in 2025 — and What Their Data Is Actually Worth
WearablesHealth Data
Sahha Raises $1.2M to Scale Health and Wearable Data Engagement API
AnnouncementFunding
Introducing Sahha Insights: Trend Detection and Population Comparisons for Health Data
AnnouncementProduct Launch
Sahha Launches Archetypes: Dynamic Behavioral Profiling From Health and Lifestyle Data
AnnouncementProduct Launch
Real-Time Health Scores and On-Demand Biomarkers Now Available on Sahha
AnnouncementProduct Launch
Sahha Introduces Smartphone-Based Sleep Estimation After Apple Drops iPhone Sleep Tracking in iOS 18
AnnouncementProduct Launch
Sahha Launches the Readiness Score: Recovery, Strain, and Sleep in One Daily Signal
AnnouncementProduct Launch