When eHealth goes viral: The strengths and weaknesses of health tech during...
The unprecedented speed of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) had the world quickly realise that the only way to avoid a frontal crash is a temporary emergency brake. As we slow down and stay home, the novel...
View ArticleMental health service Mindler raises €8m to grow platform
Mindler, Sweden’s largest digital mental health platform, recently succeeded in raising €8 million in Series A funding. The company, which noted a steep increase in demand for psychological services...
View ArticleBahrain launches electronic bracelets to keep track of active COVID-19 cases
The Kingdom of Bahrain is keeping track of its active cases of COVID-19 via electronic bracelets.Launched earlier this week, the wristbands – which are compatible with the country’s coronavirus contact...
View ArticleHims kicks off mental health offerings with free group therapy, campaign...
Easy access to (temporarily) free counseling. Consumer telehealth and mail-order prescription services Hims and Hers are dipping into the mental health wellness space. The brands kicked off new...
View ArticleEvergreen Life builds COVID-19 heat map, new mental health app launched in...
EVERGREEN LIFE BUILDS HEAT MAP SHOWING INCIDENCES OF COVID-19 IN UKHealthcare app Evergreen Life is compiling a heat map that exposes trends in local behaviour during the coronavirus pandemic. The map...
View ArticleMIT's COVID-19 app uses smartphones' Bluetooth to anonymously spot disease...
A research effort based out of MIT is looking to individuals' smartphones as tools for automatic COVID-19 contact tracing, but it's taking a unique approach that doesn't log GPS data or other...
View ArticleApple, Google have teamed up to build system-level COVID-19 contact tracing,...
Two of the biggest names in technology have formed an unprecedented partnership to introduce health data-sharing and COVID-19 contact-tracing technologies to the lion's share of the smartphone...
View ArticleHIMSSCast: Tracking, Tracing, Privacy & COVID-19
Even before today's big announcement from Apple and Google, it was clear that phone-based contact tracking was going to be an important weapon in the war against COVID-19. But might that weapon be a...
View ArticlePoll: Consumers report greater satisfaction with digital health services than...
Consumers are keenly interested in digital and remote health services during the COVID-19 emergency, with roughly four in five respondents in a recent 1,000-person survey saying they would take part in...
View ArticleFitbit's new coronavirus feature can connect users to telemedicine services,...
This morning Fitbit became the latest tech giant to unveil a new coronavirus feature. Users of the Fitbit app will now be able to use the new feature to connect with a doctor virtually and access...
View ArticleBabylon supports COVID-19 care delivery in UK's Midlands
Two NHS hospitals in the Midlands are the first to sign up for Babylon’s COVID-19 Care Assistant app in an effort to give coronavirus patients 24/7 access to support and monitoring services, despite...
View ArticlePlanned Parenthood patients can use telehealth for services like birth...
Planned Parenthood is expanding its telehealth services to include all 50 states. Patients will be able to tap into the service for some birth control needs, sexually transmitted infection testing,...
View ArticleSwiss hospitals implement remote COVID-19 symptom checking platform
Digital oncological therapeutics company Kaiku Health has developed a symptom monitoring system for patients with coronavirus to be used by Geneva University Hospitals (HUG). The platform will assist...
View ArticleFacebook will send warnings to users who encounter COVID-19 misinformation,...
Attacking misinformation head on. Big tech's war against online misinformation is raging hotter than ever with COVID-19. The latest update: Facebook will begin directly contacting users who liked,...
View ArticleSelf-reported symptoms from surveys posted on Facebook, Google outlets...
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University found that self-reported coronavirus symptoms from surveys posted on Facebook and Google correlate to test-confirmed cases. These results will now be part of...
View ArticleMicrosoft chatbot helps COVID-19 survivors determine if eligible to donate...
Microsoft has developed a new chatbot to help folks who have recovered from the COVID-19 virus determine if they can donate plasma to help with clinical research and treatment. Dubbed the CoVIg-19...
View ArticleFirst COVID-19 diagnostic test authorized for home sample collection
Thanks to an updated emergency use authorization (EUA) from the FDA, LabCorp's COVID-19 RT-PCR test is now the first diagnostic test for COVID-19 that permits at-home sample collection.Now, patients...
View ArticleWith its latest acquisition, One Drop looks to integrate Sano Intelligence's...
Digital diabetes-management company One Drop announced last week that it has acquired the assets, IP and certain staff of Sano Intelligence, the maker of a non-invasive connected CGM patch. The terms...
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Akili's digital therapeutic launches early for housebound children with ADHD
Less than a week after FDA opened the faucet for digital health products treating psychiatric conditions during the COVID-19 health crisis, Akili has fast-tracked and released its approval-pending...
View ArticleItalian hospital utilising VR to combat clinician stress during COVID-19 crisis
Limbix Italia have supplied Schiavonia COVID Hospital with VR headsets in a bid to improve the psychological and emotional wellbeing of its staff. The virtual reality hardware uses visualisation and...
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