COVID-19

Level Ex updated its Airway Ex and Pulm Ex medical-education games with free levels that simulate COVID-19 care.

Of 50 worldwide COVID-19 apps analyzed in Nature Medicine, only 16 promised to anonymize, encrypt and secure the data they collect.

The respiratory guard system, developed by Hospitech Respiration, has been used to treat ventilated COVID-19 patients.

The Fast Start funding comes from Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency, and the government to enlarge the IWS programme.

A recent report analyzing claims data identified virtual-care use cases estimates that could comprise roughly 20% of all Medicare, Medicaid and commercial spend across outpatient, office and home health.

Arnol Rios, head of business development at Sony's Takeoff Point, offers advice on more quickly preparing and deploying wearables and other mobile health tools.

Healthcare VR researchers say that certain projects have stalled during the pandemic, but strong demand and emergency reimbursement decisions out of CMS have raised hopes across the industry.

Executives from SDOH technology platforms say they anticipate more public-healthcare funding to support social services infrastructure in the coming years.

Telemedicine has experienced a huge surge in adoption over the past few months, during the coronavirus pandemic. With people locked down at home, it has become the 'new normal' way of accessing healthcare says digital health connector, Aline Noizet.

The research was carried out by Oxford University data visualisation spin-out Zegami.