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Roundup: Singaporean health workers get free access to Intellect's self-care app, Terumo signs partnership to expand predictive analytics, and more briefs
By  Adam Ang 11:10 pm March 3, 2022
Intellect offers free mental healthcare access to health workers in Singapore Mental health startup Intellect has extended free three-month premium access to its mobile app for healthcare workers in Singapore. CEO and co-founder Theodoric Chew said in a statement that this is their way of giving back to the "healthcare heroes" who have been swamped due to the recent surge of COVID-19 cases. This...
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Sino Group delivers Belun's remote monitoring devices to COVID-hit care homes in Hong Kong
By  Adam Ang 03:50 am February 24, 2022
One of Hong Kong's biggest property developers, Sino Group, through its philanthropic arm Ng Teng Fong Charitable Foundation, has started distributing 500 units of a remote monitoring system by Belun Technology Company to residential care homes handling mild COVID-19 cases. The group partnered with the Hong Kong Council of Social Service (HKCSS) and the Social Welfare Department to deliver Belun'...
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Outpatient telehealth use declines, but is still elevated from pre-pandemic era
By  Emily Olsen 12:08 pm February 15, 2022
Though outpatient visits conducted through telehealth have declined since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth visits have remained elevated even as more patients return to in-person care, according to an analysis by Epic Research and the Kaiser Family Foundation. The brief, which analyzed visits from March 2019 to August 2021, found in-person outpatient visits during the first six...
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Smartphones may be able to play a role in COVID-19 testing, according to JAMA study
By  Laura Lovett 01:51 pm January 31, 2022
Smartphones may be a key component to expanding at-home COVID-19 testing, according to a new study published in JAMA.  Researchers tested the use of a loop-mediated isothermal amplification-based methodology (LAMP), combined with smartphone-based detection, for COVID-19 and influenza testing. The results indicated that the smartphone-backed system was able to reliably detect for the COVID-19...
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Coviu's latest app combines telehealth, remote patient monitoring for COVID-19 management
By  Adam Ang 11:29 pm January 20, 2022
Telehealth firm Coviu, in partnership with medical devices distributor Propell Health, has developed an integrated telehealth and remote patient monitoring application for the management of COVID-19 patients. WHAT IT DOES According to a media release, the app is able to display health data from bluetooth-enabled medical devices, such as pulse oximeters, blood pressure monitors, and digital...
Silicon Valley Bank, medical device, COVID-19, medical diagnostics
Healthtech venture funding in Europe almost doubled in 2021
By  Tammy Lovell 09:29 am January 11, 2022
Venture investment in healthcare nearly doubled in Europe last year, rising from $8.4 billion (€7.4bn) in 2020 to $13.9 billion (€12.2bn) in 2021, according to a report by Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). The annual Healthcare Investments and Exits report found that healthtech funding in Europe almost doubled from $1.36 billion (€1.2bn) in 2020 to $2.6 billion (€2.2bn) in 2021. European investment in...
Pure Health, SEHA, merger
How Abu Dhabi’s ADQ is creating the UAE’s largest healthcare platform
By  Rachel McArthur 10:03 am January 10, 2022
Abu Dhabi’s ADQ has kicked off the new year with one of its biggest healthcare mergers yet. The asset owner and investor – considered one of the GCC’s largest holding companies – has announced that it has entered into an agreement to “consolidate several companies within Pure Health”, a UAE-based integrated healthcare solutions provider. Companies set to become part of Pure Health include Abu...
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Provider startups go virtual to tackle chronic conditions, primary care in 2021
By  Emily Olsen 11:00 am December 21, 2021
Though COVID-19 vaccines began their rollout to the public, 2021 was still a turbulent year for healthcare providers as they weathered new virus variants, staffing shortages and burnout.  But the pandemic also created a new wave of interest in virtual care and telehealth. Many providers turned toward the modality to keep in contact with patients in 2020, but startups and other organizations are...
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Is miniaturization the next trend in remote patient monitoring?
06:13 am December 16, 2021
The profound impact of COVID-19 has changed the lives of people all over the world. As social distancing became the new normal, new patterns of behaviour and expectations emerged between patients and physicians. One outcome of this has been an increase in the use of remote patient monitoring (RPM) technology, which can allow patients to receive treatment without travelling to hospital. For...
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Truepill to launch COVID-19 virtual care platform
By  Emily Olsen 11:56 am December 1, 2021
Digital health platform Truepill on Wednesday announced plans for a virtual care offering aimed at providing telehealth appointments and antiviral drugs for COVID-19. The platform, which Truepill said will launch in the coming weeks, will include a patient portal to log COVID-19 test results and symptoms, telehealth consultations, antiviral medication prescriptions and overnight drug delivery or...
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