NHSX GDE Blueprint highlights Oxford VR’s virtual reality therapy
Oxford VR’s automated virtual reality therapy has been featured in the latest NHSX Global Digital Exemplar (GDE) blueprint details.Its programme has been integrated into NHS Improving Access to...
View ArticleUK passes on Apple, Google's Bluetooth contact tracing tool, Fruit Street...
Thanks, but we've got this. The U.K. has decided not to use Apple and Google’s much-anticipated Bluetooth contact tracing tool as originally planned, according to the BBC. Apple and Google’s model...
View ArticleQuest's new service lets customers request COVID-19 antibody test
This morning behemoth lab test company Quest Diagnostics announced that it will be offering a “consumer initiated” COVID-19 antibody test for $119. Dubbed Quest Direct, the service will let consumers...
View ArticleMotiv shifts its smart rings from health tracking to biometrics following...
Fitness and sleep-tracking smart-ring-maker Motiv has been acquired by Proxy, a company specializing in digital-identity security. The companies announced the purchase in accompanying blog posts, and...
View ArticleDigital health firm Withings carries out survey into its users’ health...
A global study from French digital health company Withings has analysed the physical activity, weight, sleep patterns, exercise rituals, temperature, night-time breathing disturbances and heart rate...
View ArticleIndia mandates workers use COVID-19 tracing app, France rolls out tracing...
This month has kicked off with a slew of announcements about tracing efforts. From India’s new policy requiring all workers to download its government app to China’s new fever-senseing glasses,...
View ArticleHeal kicks off telepsychology service for California residents
Heal, the maker of an app for booking and processing device-driven physician house calls and other virtual care services, announced today that is has launched a new telepsychology service for...
View ArticleFirst-ever 'clean payment' bank card launched
An antibacterial and antiviral payment card, considered the first of its kind in the world, has been launched by a member-only luxury lifestyle management group. Insignia’s “clean payment” card...
View ArticleNew app aims to reduce impact of fake news on patients and healthcare services
Cognitant Group has launched Healthinote, an app that provides patients with up-to-date, verified healthcare information to help them understand their conditions and treatment options better, and...
View ArticleFitbit launches large-scale consumer health study to detect a-fib via heart...
Fitbit announced this morning the launch of a new atrial fibrillation research study aiming to enroll hundreds of thousands of fitness-tracker and smartwatch owners.Called the Fitbit Heart Study, it...
View ArticleGoodRx's new tool lets patients compare lab testing prices, including ones...
Pharmaceutical-cost-transparency startup GoodRx is now looking to the testing space with the launch of its new lab market place. Customers can now to do a price comparison across tests that cover...
View ArticleWi-Fi at the Nightingale, virtual GP at carehomes, and new technologies...
SWISS ARMY TESTS TRACING APPA COVID-19 contact tracing app is being trialed by 100 soldiers at the Chamblon army base near Lausanne, Switzerland. The Bluetooth-enabled app logs if users have spent more...
View ArticleRepublican senators introduce bill focused on consumers' data privacy during...
Senate Republicans introduced a new bill during the tail end of last week that seeks to increase transparency and ownership of personal health, geolocation, proximity and other related data collected...
View ArticleCOVID-19: Balancing risk with reward
About the author: Liz Ashall-Payne founded ORCHA, the Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Application, which is focused on providing guidance to app developers, as well as helping the public...
View ArticleHims & Hers, Vault Health now sell FDA-authorized home COVID-19 tests via...
Less than a week after the first home-collected saliva test for COVID-19 was authorized by the FDA, at least two consumer-facing telehealth brands say they have cut deals to sell these test kits to the...
View ArticleHIMSSCast: COVID-19 and mental and behavioral health
Telehealth of all stripes has exploded since COVID-19, but one particular subset deserves further examination: telebehavioral health, an area in which the crisis has upended the norms of supply as well...
View ArticleRo dips into skincare with new prescription dermatology line
Ro, a direct-to-consumer virtual health startup best known for its sexual health products, is dipping into the dermatology space. Patients will now be able to use the service for prescription products...
View ArticleAfter regulatory kerfuffle, EverlyWell finally rolls out home COVID-19 sample...
Austin, Texas-based EverlyWell, a digital platform that lets consumers order lab tests online and view their results, has received an FDA Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for a COVID-19 at-home...
View ArticleApple, Google's contact tracing API goes live
Roughly a month after first announcing their unprecedented collaboration, Apple and Google have updated their devices' operating systems today with the first component of their contact tracing...
View ArticleRoundup: COVID-19 antibody tests, virtual visits, care support and more news
COVID-19 ANTIBODY TESTFrench company IDvet, which specialises in the development and production of tests that detect infectious diseases in farm animals, has announced the launch of a COVID-19 antibody...
View Article