wearables
The 12-year-old French company is best known for its connected consumer health devices.
The new project will use wearable technology to enable vulnerable patients at home to be remotely monitored by hospital clinicians.
Firstbeat Analytics provides software that helps monitor stress, sleep, respiration rate and more for Garmin and other consumer smartwatch makers.
Pagabo and Moodbeam have collaborated to aid mental health and wellbeing and improve working conditions in the construction sector.
Quarantined basketball players will have the option to wear the smart rings for health tracking, and a "proximity alarm" that sounds when another wearer is too close for too long.
A new enterprise offering called Ready for Work will use devices, apps and dashboards to conduct daily screening for COVID-19 symptoms.
The research effort is a collaboration with nonprofit 4YouandMe, and will collect self-reported symptoms and wearables data from 300 high-risk participants.
Seeking to cut down an individual's risk of infection, the app encourages frequent washing with appropriate technique.
The in-app study collects wearable data and asks participants about their recent symptom history.
Also - wearable devices, contact tracing apps and remote consultations in this week's MobiHealthNews Roundup.