The Healthtech Podcast

Episode 82: COVID-19: NHSX Calls In Microsoft and Google

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This week's Sunday Session is another update on the healthtech response to COVID-19. This week we heard from NHSX and how they're partnering with big technology companies on a centralised data store to provide decision makers with real-time dashboards of how the virus is spreading and what resources are available in healthcare to deal with it.


Also featured this week:

  • Tracking apps/websites - https://covid.joinzoe.com/ (UK), www.tracktogether.co.uk (UK), www.covidnearyou.org (USA)
  • NHSX is calling on all innovators who can support the elderly, vulnerable and self-isolating during COVID-19 to apply for government funding of up to £25,000 to test their solution - https://techforce19.uk/
  • Car manufacturers are making ventilators - https://apple.news/ALoKnJ2I8Q0yYlVoBbQ3Ppg
  • Elon Musk said he sourced 1,255 ventilators from China and shipped them to Los Angeles as US worries about a shortage in the face of coronavirus - https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-says-he-shipped-1255-ventilators-to-la-coronavirus-2020-3?r=US&IR=T
  • Rock health's portfolio companies making impact -  https://rockhealth.com/10-ways-rock-health-portfolio-companies-are-responding-to-covid-19/
  • The Coronavirus Tech Handbook (an open source google doc) - https://coronavirustechhandbook.com/

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