Femtech, which describes digital technologies that aim to improve women's health, is expected to reach $50bn in market size by 2025, according to Frost & Sullivan. Reproductive health and menstrual health trackers are two of the fastest-growing sectors in femtech. We've highlighted some of the biggest players in both segments, their innovative business models, plans and also looked at barriers such as privacy issues, accuracy of mobile applications and funding challenges.

Zane Burke is the new CEO of Livongo Health, the applied health signals company announced Dec. 18. Burke previously spent five years as president of health IT company Cerner Corp. Livongo also announced that Chief Medical Officer Jennifer Schneider has been promoted to president, overseeing product, data science, software engineering, marketing, and clinical operations.

While infusion pumps are vital to patient care and used in abundance in hospitals, they are also associated with numerous errors. One of the keys to addressing this problem lies in improving the devices’ interoperability with hospital IT systems, and as those changes are starting to materialize, so are opportunities for new players in this space.

When Masimo chairman and CEO Joe Kiani saw Atheer's smart glasses and virtual reality platform, he thought the possibilities for patient monitoring were endless. Now the two companies have joined forces and are moving quickly to turn virtual reality into a clinical reality with a prototype interactive display and novel patient monitoring system that they say has the power to transform health care and the market for patient monitoring, which is estimated at more than $2 billion in the US alone according to an upcoming report from Medtech Insight.