Laura Lovett

Laura Lovett

Laura Lovett is Managing Editor of MobiHealthNews where she covers the intersection of healthcare and technology. She is also a contributing editor to Women in Healthcare IT at Healthcare IT News. Before coming to MobiHealthNews she worked for Gatehouse Media, where she earned a New England Newspaper Association award. Most recently Lovett won a Umass Medical Media Fellowship.  Lovett was educated at the University of East Anglia, the University of Massachusetts and Oxford University.

Women's health company Kindbody scores new funding from GV
By Laura Lovett | 07:07 am | December 17, 2019
The company plans on using the new funds to expand its services to new locations.
Digital health, Fortune 500 health companies see more female leadership, but still far from reachin…
By Laura Lovett | 03:51 pm | December 03, 2019
A Rock Health report found that the percentage of female partners at digital health VC firms only rose from 12.2% to 12.6%, while deals closed by women-led startups rose 13.4% to 14%.
AWS launches Amazon Transcribe Medical
By Laura Lovett | 05:01 pm | December 02, 2019
The new HIPAA-compliant tool will be able to capture physician dictation or doctor-patient conversations.
Amazon launches new Alexa feature that reminds customers when to take meds
By Laura Lovett | 10:41 am | November 27, 2019
The new feature will initially be available to Giant Eagle Pharmacy customers.
Google demos its EHR-like clinical documentation tool
By Laura Lovett | 11:21 am | November 22, 2019
News of the tool, currently in clinical pilots, comes a week after reports circulated that Google was working with healthcare system Ascension on a controversial project involving patient data.
Head of Fitbit Health Solutions talks payer strategy, evolution of health products
By Laura Lovett | 04:23 pm | November 21, 2019
MobiHealthNews sat down with Amy McDonough, SVP and general manager of Fitbit Health Solutions, prior to the news that Google was set to acquire Fitbit.
Head of Fitbit Health Solutions talks payer strategy, evolution of health products
By Laura Lovett | 03:54 pm | November 21, 2019
MobiHealthNews sat down with Amy McDonough, SVP and general manager of Fitbit Health Solutions, prior to the news that Google was set to acquire Fitbit.
Ada Health launches Swahili language version of its app
By Laura Lovett | 04:21 pm | November 19, 2019
The new tool will also be localized to provide relevant medical information.
It's official: Google acquires wearable giant Fitbit
By Laura Lovett | 10:53 am | November 01, 2019
According to Google's blog post announcing the acquisition, we can expect to see more "Made by Google" wearables alongside Fitbit devices running Wear OS.
Health literacy, numeracy bar entry in dieting apps
By Laura Lovett | 05:11 pm | October 16, 2019
At this year’s Connected Health conference in Boston, Sherry Pagoto, director of the UConn Center for mHealth and Social Media, discussed the social and skill set barriers to weight loss.