Digital Health In Brief

Asthmapolis, a company collecting asthma data through smartphones, announced a new round of funding on April 4 worth $6.9 million from The Social+Capital Partnership, with $5 million in new funding and $1.9 million converting into equity. On the heels of a recent partnership with insurer Amerigroup in Florida, the money is intended to support greater scale in sales and marketing, along with greater support for the firm’s integration team. (See Also see "Digital Health In Brief" - Medtech Insight, 18 March, 2013..)

In an interview with “The Gray Sheet,” company co-founder Mark Gehring discussed the firm’s move into international markets, particularly the EU and Canada, noting that “governments [often] have the same...