The National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom has launched a medical drone delivery service in partnership with healthcare logistics firm Apian and Alphabet's drone-delivery company Wing to provide on-demand aerial transport of blood samples.
The initial service will run for six months between Guy’s Hospital and the lab at St. Thomas’ Hospital to enable quicker analysis and more timely...
VitalTrax has launched Wing, its clinical trials electronic network that gives patients, caregivers and physicians a streamlined experience for finding and enrolling in clinical trials.
Wing, which can be accessed at PatientWing.com, also offers clinical trials sponsors and provider research sites the ability to publish and promote their trials for increased visibility. Research sites are...
Health startups lead IoT in funding. A recent report from VC firm Wing tracks funding in the Internet of Things space — and found that health is one of two areas where IoT funding is the strongest, the other being automotive.
“Health’s robust end to 2016 was powered by connected monitoring and tracking products,” Partner Martin Giles wrote. “In the last four months of the year there were...
St. Louis-based Sparo Labs is now selling Wing, its FDA-cleared, over-the-counter smartphone sensor to manage asthma and other respiratory conditions. The device was cleared in June and is available directly to consumers, although the company has also indicated they are eyeing pharma and providers as potential distribution channels as well.
Wing is a pocket-sized spirometer with a cloud-connected...
Wing, an app-connected spirometer from St. Louis, Missouri-based Sparo Labs, is ready to take flight. The FDA recently cleared the device with an over-the-counter clearance, meaning the company can market it directly to consumers, but Sparo sees provider and pharma channels as important ones too.
With Wing, Sparo aims to help people manage asthma and other respiratory conditions, such as COPD...
There have been a number of digital health products that have launched on Indiegogo and Kickstarter in the last few weeks. These products, which all include a hardware element this time around, range from a mole -scanning smartphone peripheral, from a company that's been active in digital health for a couple years now, to a smartphone-connected spirometer. Notably, there are two women's health...
