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The company hopes that its more descriptive reports will distinguish the personal ECG offering from others limited to atrial fibrillation detection alone.

Also: Fern Health gets a new CEO, SonderMind grows executive leadership team by two and Twentyeight Health names new hires.   

The Wild Card open innovation programme has selected two innovator teams from Spain and Germany.

An initial pilot scheme will provide patients with access to local community pharmacists via the Push Doctor platform.

Megan Callahan, VP of healthcare at Lyft, details how the ridesharing company responded to new demands as a result of COVID-19.

Flare Capital's Alexandra Mullin and Ian Chiang outline COVID-19's impact on the worsening opioid crisis and how the digital opioid use disorder space is likely to develop over the coming years.

This week's top stories include a House bill that would protect virtual care access beyond the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, and DarioHealth acquiring Upright to add new capabilities to its condition management and behavior change platform.

Also, Raccoon.World raises further €660K for its physiotherapy telemedicine platform.

Professor Claudia Pagliari, director of global eHealth at the University of Edinburgh, says sharing data with local public health authorities will improve management of public health crises while also reducing health inequalities.

Also: Blood glucose monitoring could be coming to next-gen consumer smartwatches; new incubator looking for disruptive health tech startups.