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Policy

Cindy Loffler Stevens

T EC H H U B

The Digital Health Sector Comes Together

TA members are providing solutions to
combat COVID-19.
Recent innovations in digital
health are helping to contain
the spread of disease. Here are a
few examples of tech solutions
from several CTA member companies that are helping to keep
us healthy and connected.

Digital Health and Wearables

Remote patient monitoring devices and
apps enable consumers to stay healthy
while isolated and provide that data to
doctors and caregivers.
● BIOINTELLISENSE developed a wearable

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● GE HEALTHCARE is extending its long● SMARTBEINGS INC. created WooHoo to
provide 360-degree remote patient monitoring and video conferencing without the need
for doctors or nurses to be physically present
in the room. WooHoo also has voice control
automation systems like lights, temperature
panels, curtains and doorknobs, which
reduce sources of infection from frequently
touched surfaces.
● TEMPTRAQ wearable thermometer is helping health care organizations remotely monitor a patient's temperature with COVID-19.
● WYZE offers iHealth No-Touch
Thermometer, and launched two new products: Wyze Scale measures weight, body, fat
and 10 other metrics including heart rate,
and Wyze Band counts your steps and tracks
your heart rate, as well as the other functionality users expect from a fitness band.

Detection and Patient Monitoring
These products and services offer rapid
testing of coronavirus.

● ROBERT BOSCH rolled out a new COVID19 test that can make a diagnosis in less than
2.5 hours and help efforts to fight the outbreak.

time collaboration with Microsoft to launch a
cloud-based COVID-19 patient monitoring
software for health systems.
● GLOBAL TELEHEALTH SERVICE offers
remote patient monitoring, vital sign data collection and management, and patient/caregiver video conferencing.
● GOOGLE and APPLE are partnering on
contact tracing technology to combat the
spread of the COVID-19 virus by alerting participants of exposure to someone who has
been positively diagnosed as having the virus.
● HEALTHPRECISION launched COVID-19
Medical Brain, an intelligent automated frontend triage and support tool to assist health care
workers in complying with the Department of
Health and CDC guidelines for health care
workers who are exposed to COVID-19 patients.
● HERE TECHNOLOGIES has a mapping and
tracking tool that displays the spread of COVID19. The tool provides an interactive overview of
the latest situation, including the number of
confirmed cases, deaths and recoveries.
● HUMETRIX has developed a COVID-19
severe infection risk screening and warning
feature for both consumer and provider users
of iBlueButton platform to serve the high-risk
Medicare patient population.

Clockwise from Top Right: Courtesy of SmartBeings, Inc. Courtesy of Global Telehealth
Service, Courtesy of BioIntellisense (2), Courtesy of Oura Ring.

device, the BioSticker, that detects metrics
including fever, shortness of breath and
coughing, hallmarks of COVID-19. The
BioButton provides a scalable and cost-effective solution for COVID-19 symptom monitoring of patients at home, high-risk individuals
and health care professionals, and enables
safe return to work and school.
● CAREPREDICT has tools with location
tracking capabilities to empower senior living
facilities, nursing homes and hospitals to identify, within seconds, all the individuals who
have come in contact with an infected person.
● FITBIT is joining The Scripps Research
Translational Institute to determine if tracking changes in heart rate, activity and sleep
for individuals can provide an early indication of illness.
● HEALIUM is a drugless escape for selfmanagement of anxiety and pain. It's the
world's first virtual and augmented reality
media channel powered by brainwaves and
heart rate that visualizes users' stress levels.
● OURA RING is partnering with University of
California, San Francisco (UCSF) researchers
to study if physiological data collected by the
Oura ring that provides real-time biomarkers,
such as body temperature, can show the
onset of COVID-19 before symptoms arise.
The technology could enable patients to be
treated and isolated faster to slow the spread.

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https://biointellisense.com/ https://www.gehealthcare.com/ https://www.smartbeings.com/ https://www.globaltelenet.org/ https://www.carepredict.com/ https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/04/apple-and-google-partner-on-covid-19-contact-tracing-technology/ https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/04/apple-and-google-partner-on-covid-19-contact-tracing-technology/ https://temptraq.healthcare/ https://www.fitbit.com/global/us/home https://medicalbrain.com/ http://WYZE.com https://www.tryhealium.com/ https://www.here.com/ https://ouraring.com/ http://www.humetrix.com/ https://www.bosch.com/stories/vivalytic-rapid-test-for-covid-19/

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