Dive Brief: Philips has agreed to acquire BioTelemetry in a $2.8 billion cash deal, growing Philips’ remote monitoring business as telehealth and virtual care are booming. The companies announced the deal Friday morning. BioTelemetry specializes in remote cardiac diagnostics and monitoring, with portfolios in wearable heart monitors and AI-based data analytics and services. Philips said that the […]
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Dive Brief: Abbott on Wednesday received FDA emergency use authorization for a 15-minute antigen test, making it the first at-home, virtually guided coronavirus diagnostic to get the agency’s nod. The BinaxNOW COVID-19 Ag Card Home Test, which requires a prescription, offers a telehealth service to walk users through the sample self-collection process and to help them read and understand their […]
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COVID-19 antibody tests from Roche and Siemens scored highly on a comparison of emergency authorized tests published by FDA. The comparison, which relies on data from the companies, shows variation in the ability of serology assets to reliably determine if a sample contains antibodies against the pandemic coronavirus. Roche’s Elecsys Anti-SARS-CoV-2 S, a semi-quantitative test that recently received […]
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