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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.

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

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

Sleep Analyzer uses advanced sensors to detect symptoms of sleep apnea.

MobiHealthNews talks about the value of digital therapeutics, artificial intelligence and learnings from COVID-19 with Dr Cesar Morcillo Serra, director of internal medicine in Hospital Cima Sanitas Barcelona, Spain.

Survey found that 80% of patients and 74% of GPs would like remote consultations to continue after lockdown.    

Marianna Imenokhoeva, founder at LinktoMedicine and HIMSS Future50 International, talks about reopening economies, and how telehealth will be more relevant than ever in the post-COVID-19 world.

NHS 111 staff will be enabled to book appointments for patients at appropriate surgeries in the UK.

Data privacy will be a key focus as development of the government’s NHS tracing app heads toward testing and review. But with release still unlikely for several weeks, one member of the development team suggests that lost time has already cost lives.

A rush to access the government’s coronavirus system set up to provide tests for keyworkers brought it to a temporary halt. Scientists at Siemens have promised a new antibody test by the end of May.