Scanwell Health, myLAB Box unveil more at-home COVID-19 testing services
Scanwell Health and myLAB Box are the two latest at-home diagnostics services to address the shortage of COVID-19 testing in the U.S., the companies recently announced. Both anticipate their testing...
View ArticleAt-home COVID-19 testing services pump the brakes after FDA warns of...
Last week saw a number of diagnostic testing startups, telehealth providers and others announce new services that would deliver at-home COVID-19 testing-kits to consumers. But the majority of these of...
View ArticleFitness goes digital during COVID-19 crisis
As efforts to slow down the spread of COVID-19, see gyms and sports facilities close throughout Europe, many people can no longer follow their usual exercise routines.To stay fit and healthy, the NHS...
View ArticleApple's Siri now walks worried users through their COVID-19 symptoms
Apple's Siri has been updated to provide symptom-based guidance and, in some cases, telehealth-app download links to users seeking COVID-19 information from the virtual assistant.Now, when users ask...
View ArticleA-list tech engineers team up with Boston Children's Hospital on coronavirus...
Looking to better track the spread of the novel coronavirus, a team of engineers from some of Silicon Valley's most notable companies has joined forces with Boston Children's Hospital's Chief...
View ArticleIreland’s health service uses patientMpower remote monitoring solution for...
Dublin-based digital health firm patientMpower has developed a remote monitoring solution for COVID-19 on behalf of the Irish Health Service Executive (HSE).This enables monitoring of otherwise healthy...
View ArticleCOVID-19 home-testing kit could soon be available for purchase in UK
Public Health England (PHE) informed the UK government that (25 March) home-testing kits that identify whether a person has ever been infected with COVID-19 could soon be available to order online and...
View ArticleScripps, UCSF kick off wearable-driven research projects to spot viral...
Two medical research organizations have kicked off new efforts this week that seek to use consumer-health wearables to identify or event predict the onset of disease.The first is the DETECT (Digital...
View ArticleLIVI Connect launched across Europe to help healthcare professionals amid...
LIVI, the UK branch of Europe’s largest digital healthcare provider KRY, has launched a free web-based platform that will enable healthcare professionals to connect with patients via video...
View ArticleGoodRx launches telemedicine price comparison service, amid growing demand...
GoodRx, the Californian startup best known for its pharmaceutical-cost-transparency tool, is rolling out a new feature that lets patients compare telemedicine prices and service options. Dubbed GoodRx...
View ArticleMedbelle offering COVID-19 tests to patients in the UK at cost
Digital hospital Medbelle have announced they will be selling COVID-19 test kits to private patients at cost in an attempt to aid the NHS in its efforts to better understand the virus and to expand...
View ArticleFitbit unveils Charge 4 tracker with GPS, heart activity tracking feature for...
Fitbit has announced the latest member of its fitness tracker lineup, the Fitbit Charge 4, alongside new fitness-minded features and new content for Fitbit Premium.The new device's standout feature is...
View ArticleMedical training company FundamentalVR expands its educational platform for...
London-based FundamentalVR, a digital health company that uses virtual reality (VR) to help train surgeons, today announced the expansion of its educational platform Fundamental Surgery.Its new...
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SideKickHealth to provide digital platform for COVID-19 patients in Iceland
Nordic startup SideKickHealth is working with the COVID-19 response team in Iceland to provide its digital therapeutics platform to people who have been diagnosed with the virus.Its platform allows the...
View ArticleFibriCheck announces nighttime a-fib monitoring feature for smartwatch app
Belgium-based FibriCheck, the maker of apps that monitor a user's heart rhythm, announced yesterday that it has developed a new version of its smartwatch offering that is capable of scanning for atrial...
View ArticleLos Angeles company falsely announces FDA authorization for two-minute...
Editor's note: On the same day this story was published, the FDA publicized the first Emergency Use Authorization of a serology test, Cellex Inc.’s qSARS-CoV-2 IgG/IgM Rapid Test. This story has been...
View ArticleFacebook rolls out three new COVID-19 related health tracking maps
This afternoon Facebook announced its latest coronavirus-focused efforts, which includes the rollout of three new maps to its Data for Good program aimed at tracking the potential spread of the...
View ArticleGoogle mobilizes location tracking data to help public health experts monitor...
Google is taking its coronavirus support efforts one step further with the launch of its COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports web tool late last week.Similar to the way Google Maps displays whether...
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