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As 14 European health innovation projects receive more than €6 million in funding from EIT Health, CEO Jan-Philipp Beck says the COVID-19 pandemic will accelerate the speed of change enabled by digital healthcare and telemedicine – and not before time.

Mental health and well-being for healthcare workers have become an increasing concern, given their increased workloads and stress levels in coping with the COVID-19 pandemic.  

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The French company analysed aggregated data from its scales, smartwatches and sleep monitoring devices.    

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The company fielded a major spike in demand and now paints a rosy long-term picture for its telehealth business, although its poor EPS disappointed some investors. 

Dr. Don Rucker, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, discusses his work with the Global Digital Health Partnership initative. 

Virtual primary care, acute care, chronic disease management and specialty consultations will all be available directly through DarioHealth's app.

The new tool will be released for limited distribution and will provide multimodal neurobehavioral interventions. 

The company has halted sales of the Motiv Ring to consumers, but will continue to support its health tracking app for existing owners.