mHealth Intelligence February 13, 2018
Eric Wicklund

Fitbit has announced plans to acquire Twine Health, giving its consumer-facing mHealth platform health and wellness coaching tools that could attract health systems and payers looking to improve patient engagement.

Fitbit is adding health and wellness coaching to its consumer-facing digital health platform, giving the company new mHealth tools to appeal to providers and payers.

The San Francisco-based company announced plans this week to acquire Twine Health, which develops online coaching tools for people with chronic conditions and to help in lifestyle interventions like weight loss and smoking cessation. The acquisition would give the maker of the nation’s most popular fitness wearable a direct link to coaching and engagement tools that clinicians and health plans are looking for in mobile...

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Topics: Apps, Health System / Hospital, Mergers & Acquisitions / JV, mHealth, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Wearables
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