Finland-based Oura, maker of its namesake health tracking ring, announced it's partnering with teletherapy company Talkspace to allow Oura wearers to share their personalized sleep and daily movement data with Talkspace therapists.
Oura ring wearers can utilize the company's Share Report feature to send information about their sleep quality and movement trends over the period of a week, a month...
Oura, the company behind a health tracking ring wearable, announced Tuesday it had purchased digital identification startup Proxy in an all-equity deal.
Proxy offers digital identity tech that aims to replace keys, cards, badges, apps and passwords. The startup said it had been working to include its offerings on wearable devices as well as phones.
According to reporting by Bloomberg, the deal...
Finland-based Oura, maker of the health-tracking Ring, announced the launch of Oura for Business, which will supply individuals with personalized insights while providing customized tools and recommendations for leaders based on group data.
Oura said it will offer specialized offerings geared toward employee wellness, athletics, the military, healthcare, corporations and higher education.
The...
Oura, maker of a health tracking ring, announced a partnership with birth control app Natural Cycles to use its wearable to monitor body temperature changes.
Users will be able to sync temperature data recorded from the Oura Ring into the Natural Cycles app instead of taking their temperature manually each morning. Natural Cycles, which received FDA De Novo clearance in 2018, uses temperature...
Axios' Erin Brodwin published a new investigation which discovered healthcare automation startup Olive is exaggerating its capabilities and only uses "rough estimations" to gauge its cost savings. According to the report, Olive, which promises health systems cost savings, is only tracking savings if a client requests it. The report also highlighted Olive employees' concerns about how the company...
An unusual summer playoff format will once again have NBA superstars competing for their championship rings, but behind the scenes all players entering the Disney World "bubble" will have the option to monitor their via health sensor-laden smart rings, The Athletic reports.
Citing a health-and-safety manual distributed to players by the National Basketball Players Association, the sports...
Two medical research organizations have kicked off new efforts this week that seek to use consumer-health wearables to identify or event predict the onset of disease.
The first is the DETECT (Digital Engagement & Tracking for Early Control & Treatment) Study, headed by the Scripps Research Translational Institute. It combines heart-rate, activity and sleep data collected through a range...
Oura, maker of a health-monitoring smart ring for consumers, has raised $28 million in a new Series B funding round, CEO Harpreet Singh Rai announced today in a medium.com post.
Forerunner Ventures, Square and Google's Gradient Ventures participated in the raise. The first two groups will be rewarded with spots on Oura's board of directors, while Gradient Ventures Founder and Managing Partner...
Oulu, Finland-based Oura Health, maker of a sleep- and activity-tracking smart ring, today announced that it has surpassed $20 million in total funding. Based on its previous announcements, this would mean that the company has raised roughly $6.5 million or more in new funding since its most recent round in July.
While the latest round was led by MSD Capital, it also featured YouTube cofounder...
Two different perspectives. A recent study found that doctors and nurses, by and large, use different terminology when talking about patients. A team of researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago used computer science technology to compare individual-level patient care provided by doctors and nurses using information routinely documented by EHRs. The algorithm was used to identify the...
