The Digital Health Sector Comes Together

Consumer Technology Association (CTA)^® 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 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 self-management 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.
• 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 remotelymonitor 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 heartrate, as well as the other functionality users expect from a fitness band.