EWH Blog

Our friends Reece Stevens with FreePulse and David Kovacs with Access Health Care Nepal have teamed up! Reece and David are both Summer Institute Alumni, January Institute Alumni, and former On-the-Ground Coordinators. In addition to his work with EWH, David co-founded Access Health Care Nepal (AHCN), an organization dedicated to improving healthcare in regions of Nepal where healthcare is scarce or not available at all. AHCN has also been a key partner in EWH’s work in Nepal. In 2015, Reece’s team at the University of Texas at Austin won EWH’s annual design competition for their low-cost patient monitor design: FreePulse. Now, Reece and FreePulse are working with AHCN to design on-the-ground tests of FreePulse’s capabilities in Nepal.…

ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI — Sparo Labs, a digital health startup based in downtown St. Louis, has launched sales of its flagship product, Wing®. Wing is the first over-the-counter, FDA-cleared smartphone sensor for measuring and tracking lung function. This means anyone can purchase Wing – no prescription necessary – through the Wing website at www.mywing.io to proactively manage asthma or their respiratory conditions.…