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The web app includes reviews of health apps across a range of health conditions relevant to COVID, including reviews of COVID apps launched to date. ORCHA is also offering free professional accounts to all NHS staff for the next three months, which let healthcare professionals find and recommend health apps to patients via text or email.
Read MoreThe Fix the Mask team consists of ex-Apple mechanical engineers now designing simple DIY rubber band braces to improve the sealing of surgical masks. The initiative’s mission is to quickly supply safer masks in the fight against COVID.
Read MoreBabcock has responded to the UK Prime Minister's UK Ventilator Challenge by saying it will make 10,000 ventilators which will be used in hospitals across the UK to treat COVID patients.
Read MoreBoth airlines are reaching out to those staff who have not been working due to planes having been grounded following the COVID outbreak to consider helping at the new hospitals being built across the country.
Read MoreSix walk-in kiosks for mass collection of samples for COVID testing, seen first in South Korea, have been built in Kerala's Ernakulam district, at four hospitals. The kiosks are mobile cubicles with a sealed glass front and extended gloves attached in the front through which a medical worker can collect samples.
Read MoreFrom April 15, victims will be able to go to the Someplace Safe website and find a chat now button that will connect them directly to a domestic violence specialist. This will help women who are monitored, stalked, or never left alone calling from home to reach for help by texting.
Read MoreThe new course is designed to keep people company while stuck at home and use the time to create a healthy new habit of mindfulness, which has been shown to reduce stress and anxiety while boosting the immune system.
Read MoreResearchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have begun mass-producing disposable face shields for medical workers fighting COVID, which come flat-packed and can be folded into a three-dimensional structure when needed for use.
Read MoreThe Biosensor Patch 1AX, affixed on the chest area, will record temperature, respiration rate, ECG trace, heart rate and movement, in real-time. The data can then be sent wirelessly from the patch to an app on the user’s phone, where it is displayed and analysed.
Read MoreFoward adapts to a need for remote health services to support non-COVID patients during lockdown. Patients get a kit consisting of an EKG, a connected thermometer, and a pulse oximeter delivered to their home, which provides a whole new level of remote care.
Read MoreProfessor Curran is currently waiting for FDA approval of his innovative waterproofing solution created for the N95 masks, that could protect medical workers from small droplets of COVID.
Read MoreDevelopers in Singapore undertook a huge effort to build a comprehensive app for contact tracing and now want to help others by making it open source. The app helps identify people who have had close contact with a COVID patient to prevent spreading the infection further.
Read MoreThanks to Decathlon's drawing of its snorkeling Easybreath mask, Isinnova was able to 3D-print a valve adapter that successfully turns the masks into emergency ventilators. The company shared the blueprint of the design for free online.
Read MoreTo answer the shortage of medical equipment across the country, the small manufacturing company in Barneveld is starting to produce face shields that will soon be delivered to US hospitals and also be available on Amazon.
Read MoreThe Philadelphia Department of Health secured a contract making Pacify accessible to all city residents immediately through at least July 1, for free, to ease any questions or concerns new parents may be experiencing during lockdown.
Read MoreThe free-to-download app is designed to make it easy to self-report whether or not people feel well and what symptoms they are experiencing. It also asks for information about being tested for COVID and whether they are in self-isolation.
Read MoreThe app has a feature that helps users earn SSG coins (StepSetGo’s in-app currency) for every indoor step taken. The app makers introduced a series of challenges that encourage greater engagement during lockdown. There are seven types of challenges spread over 21 days to win more SSG coins.
Read MoreThe app, developed by NHSX, the health service’s digital transformation arm of the NHS, would instantly trace close contacts of people carrying COVID and advise them to self-isolate.
Read MorePacific Ballroom Dance’s program leaders are now holding online classes for kids and adults. The studio is also making plans for a groundbreaking ballroom dance concert this spring, conducted virtually.
Read MoreThe ‘COVID-19 Preparedness’ app enables patients to self-screen and healthcare volunteers to triage using smartphones, broadening the capacity for emergency response in rural or underserved communities. The app can also help track the spread and containment of the virus.
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