Earlier this week, the Dubai Health Authority (DHA) in the United Arab Emirates announced it is now offering a simple saliva test that can detect COVID-19 for children between the ages of 3-16 years. The test – which costs AED 150 (€34) – is available across all DHA facilities and DHA-run COVID-19 screening centres in the emirate.
It is hoped that the new form of testing will eliminate discomfort...
UK-based independent technology and product development company, the Technology Partnership Plc (TTP), is seeking partnerships for CoTest, a new pooled screening technology for COVID-19.
The technology can be used in any location, to screen up to 40 people at once for the virus, with results available in 30 minutes.
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CoTest enables screening of large groups, such as school classes...
London-based digital platform and app, MediShout has closed a £1 million seed round, led by Episode 1 Ventures.
Founded by NHS surgeon, Ash Kalraiya, the app was inspired by his experience of procedure delays caused by faulty equipment or not having the right stock.
The MediShout app is being used in six NHS hospitals to connect staff, equipment suppliers and service maintenance teams.
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UK healthcare scale-up Navenio, has announced a $1.1 million (€845K) investment from Future Planet Capital to help accelerate healthcare efficiency.
Navenio aims to use the funds for its intelligent workforce solution, which helps to mitigate infection and cross-contamination in hospitals.
Dubbed 'Uber-for-indoors' for its infrastructure-free indoor location solutions, the platform is the...
Netherlands-based St. Antonius Hospital, together with e-health company Luscii, has developed home monitoring for hospitalised COVID-19 patients.
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COVID-19 patients who have not yet fully recovered, but are stable, may voluntarily take early discharge. Once this happens, they receive home monitoring to ease the transition via a program in the Luscii app, where they are able to ...
UK tech company PIVOT1080 has launched a smart wristband to train people to stop touching their face, a common transmission route for COVID-19.
The ‘Nudge’ band uses behavioural science and AI to differentiate between over 1,000 different hand movements and to psychologically 'nudge' the wearer.
Using gesture recognition to calculate hand movements, the device vibrates when it identifies the...
LATVIA'S COVID-19 APP CONNECTS TO EU'S INTEROPERABILITY SYSTEM
Latvia's contact tracing app, Apturi Covid (Stop Covid) has connected to the interoperability system for other contact tracing apps in the European Commission.
This will allow the Apturi Covid app to warn and notify a user if they have come into contact with an COVID-19 infected person when in Germany, Italy, Ireland and Spain.
The...
Lagos-based health tech precision medicine research company, 54gene, has launched its Clinical Research Programme Services (CPS) division.
The new business division will provide end-to-end clinical development services, intelligence, logistics, and infrastructure to enable the conduct of clinical trials in Africa, starting out of Nigeria.
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54gene’s Clinical Programme Services...
Life sciences accelerator and medtech incubator project MediCity Glasgow have helped raise over £26 million (€29M) in the last five years, supporting the creation of 70 new companies in Scotland’s thriving life sciences sector and creating over 200 jobs.
The project, which is part of business collective BioCity, greatly surpassed their original investment goal of £5 million (€5.6M), enhancing the...
Amongst others, the COVID-19 pandemic caused a lot of disruption to regular face-to-face medical services and jeopardised the provision of care. As part of the global response to this crisis, telemedicine is now being incorporated into the care continuum across the globe. The health authorities and the providers in the UAE were very quick to offer telemedicine solutions, including the release...
.jpg?itok=rl92Ffhn "Following peer-reviewed published research, the emirate of Dubai has introduced a more convenient test to detect the coronavirus in children.")
