Coronavirus

The coronavirus pandemic has driven some UK GPs to digitise patient consultations at speed – achieving transformation in weeks with the help of online triage tools.

Also Chinese startup develops smartglasses that can detect temperature. 

As 14 European health innovation projects receive more than €6 million in funding from EIT Health, CEO Jan-Philipp Beck says the COVID-19 pandemic will accelerate the speed of change enabled by digital healthcare and telemedicine – and not before time.

[May 1] As the cases of COVID-19 increase we are seeing a rise in digital epidemiology tools, chatbot helpers, EHR guidance tools and rapid-response test kits. 

As racial disparities surface in the coronavirus pandemic, tapping diverse perspectives to create digital health tools is key.

The French company analysed aggregated data from its scales, smartwatches and sleep monitoring devices.    

Also: Washington Post survey says users reluctant to use Google and Apple's tracing app; Chronolife lands CE mark. 

Patient Orator founder and CEO Kistein Monkhouse discusses the long history of racial inequalities in healthcare, and how technology can pinpoint those with the highest risk.

The new tool will be released for limited distribution and will provide multimodal neurobehavioral interventions. 

Covid med ed aims to train healthcare volunteers in skills to cope with the pandemic.