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Covid med ed aims to train healthcare volunteers in skills to cope with the pandemic.

Sleep Analyzer uses advanced sensors to detect symptoms of sleep apnea.

MobiHealthNews talks about the value of digital therapeutics, artificial intelligence and learnings from COVID-19 with Dr Cesar Morcillo Serra, director of internal medicine in Hospital Cima Sanitas Barcelona, Spain.

Users can fill out an online platform, get blood drawn at a Quest service center, and get results on a digital portal within two days. 

Survey found that 80% of patients and 74% of GPs would like remote consultations to continue after lockdown.    

Marianna Imenokhoeva, founder at LinktoMedicine and HIMSS Future50 International, talks about reopening economies, and how telehealth will be more relevant than ever in the post-COVID-19 world.

Also: Wearables, AI support COVID-19 hydroxychloroquine study; Verizon Media deploys new COVID-19 dataset, API and dashboard.

This report comes as news breaks that the UK has decided not to use Apple and Google's contact-tracing tech as originally planned. 

A new study suggests that a deep learning system would save on the roughly two minutes of human labor required to grade each case, although a semi-automated approach was found to drive the greatest savings for large programs.

NHS 111 staff will be enabled to book appointments for patients at appropriate surgeries in the UK.