1Health.io Launches the First COVID-19 TeleHealth Supervised Self Collection Kit; 50,000 Test Kits Will Ship Immediately Ramping Up To 300,000 Kits Monthly by May
The test will use saliva spit kits manufactured in the U.S., relieving strain on the supply of nasal swabs in U.S. hospitals
April 15, 2020 12:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--1Health.io, a precision health platform that powers both health systems and direct to consumer brands such as Vitagene and GNC, announced the immediate availability of 50,000 COVID-19 test kits that are FDA approved for telehealth- or other provider-supervised self collection. 1Health.io and its lab partners are ramping up to provide 300,000 test kits by May to increase widespread testing capacity in the U.S.
1Health.io?s test kits and cloud platform were designed to support the following goals:?As a country we are going through challenging times and all of us are trying to help in some capacity?
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- Allow a patient to have saliva collected in a special saliva kit during a telehealth session with a care provider supervising from a remote location.
- Support doctors who are attending to their patients online through TeleHealth platforms, allowing them to supervise a COVID-19 test over TeleHealth platforms.
- Reduce the need for a healthcare provider to personally perform the sample collection. The test kit is a simple saliva spit kit that can be supervised remotely, reducing risk of unintended infections of the healthcare provider.
- Reduce the need for consumption of nasal swabs which are in shortage across the US hospital systems.
- The kits are 100% US made, eliminating substantial supply chain complexity and import dependency.
- Facilitate doctors and rural clinics with limited access to local lab equipment to obtain high quality COVID-19 testing for their patients while reducing the incidence of secondary infection.
- Digitally deliver test results to the ordering healthcare provider, upon approval to the patient, within 3-4 days of specimen collection.