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AI Biokinetic Technologies and Aspen Clinical Research are hoping to get a final approval for their COVID AI 19 app which uses AI to give COVID test results, thanks to a thermal temperature reading, an audio analysis and an X-ray analysis of the lungs, all on your phone.
Read MoreThe website launched by caretaking and mental health online blog Girl’s Night In is full of activities, recommendations, and other ideas to help people stay in and take care of themselves and others, with a daily updates.
Read MoreThe ‘Free Public Support Group to Manage Coronavirus Anxiety’ is a free therapist-led Facebook group by US online therapy platform Talkspace that can provide support to anyone struggling with anxiety during COVID.
Read MoreAlex Frost and Tyler Mantel, both entrepreneurs with startups in MassRobotics in Boston, co-founded a non-profit called 'The Ventilator Project'. They quickly recruited a team of over 15 engineers to rapidly prototype a low-cost ventilator for global distribution.
Read MoreThe new dashboard pinpoints how many days until hospitals in different regions of the US reach ‘capacity failure’. For example, it indicates, on 2nd April: Portland, Oregon: 18 days ; Los Angeles: 14 days.
Read MoreAshley Lawrence created masks with a plastic window so that the mouth is visible for speech and lip-reading. This alteration makes the masks suitable for people with cochlear implants and hearing aids.
Read MoreThe owner of the business, Bobbi Barton, adjusted her 3D printing machine to manufacture headbands for protective face shields worn by doctors and nurses instead of the cookie cutters that it normally makes. The shields are donated and shipped to Newton Medical Center.
Read MoreThe MIT team created a ventilator design affordable and easily able to replicate that costs approximately $500. The team will share the design online so that companies can recreate the lifesaving device for hospitals around the world.
Read MoreEpic is transforming its former headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin, into a child care centre open 24 hours a day and seven days a week for kids whose parents are working local hospitals treating patients with COVID - for free.
Read MoreAlibaba's research institute said they had trained the AI model with sample data from more than 5,000 confirmed cases, and that it can complete its disease recognition process within 20 seconds with an accuracy of up to 96%.
Read MoreSeveral sports data companies now offer 'virtual' sports betting products powered by AI algorithms. The ATP Tennis Tour is now partnering with IMG Arena on the creation of an officially licensed tennis product with the hope that gamblers will be seduced by the authenticity.
Read MoreWorkers from Naval Dockyard in Andhra Pradesh's Visakhapatnam designed a 'Portable Multi-feed Oxygen Manifold' which enables one oxygen bottle to supply six patients concurrently by using a six-way radial header fitted to a single cylinder.
Read MoreAmazon Care has partnered with the Seattle Coronavirus Assessment Network (SCAN) to study how the coronavirus spreads among different demographic groups. The e-commerce giant intends to deliver diagnostic tests to individuals who either feel sick or are asymptomatic. These tests are later picked up and if COVID is detected the patient will receive a call.
Read MoreThe largest bedding company in the US donated 10,000 mattresses to New York City hospitals and temporary medical facilities fighting COVID, and is calling on its peers to do the same.
Read MoreAs more people are relying on telemedicine due to social distancing measures, GoodRx offers now a way to compare services. On the platform, users can select a medical condition, including COVID, the site then provides a list of telehealth services that can treat that condition, along with the estimated price and pharmacy information.
Read MoreVocalis Health is collaborating with the Defense Ministry in Israel to collect voice samples from COVID patients and the general public with the intention to identify a vocal fingerprint unique to those who have the respiratory virus.
Read MoreNHS-approved My Possible Self app provides content that is clinically proven to help people reduce stress, anxiety and mild to moderate depression. The company decided to make its app completely free during the COVID crisis.
Read MoreThe NHS in the UK is now providing its employees free subscription to Headspace, a global leader in meditation and mindfulness, to help them facing increasing demand, stress and pressure.
Read MoreAbbott Laboratories launched the currently fastest available “molecular point-of-care” test for COVID, which can detect positive results in five minutes, while negative results take about 13 minutes.
Read MoreHudson Regional Hospital is using the NanoVapor BioTech Microbial Suppression System, a special disinfectant spray that can kill viruses like COVID on surfaces for more than 70 days.
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