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The public-private partnership targets the state with the highest percentage of adult diabetics and an annual $3 billion bill to treat them. Officials hope the use of mHealth tools and services will help them manage that chronic population and reduce that bill.

Diabetes apps aren't being used because they're too difficult and don't do what users want. Even though diabetes apps have perhaps the best business upside of anything in mHealth.

VMware's acquisition of AirWatch will meld security into virtualization and cloud computing, a combination needed in healthcare.

California-based Sutter health joins a pair of venture capital firms in sinking almost $24 million into MDLIVE's cloud-based platform, which gives consumers with non-emergency health issues instant access to a physician via phone, e-mail or video-conference.