G42 Healthcare announces partnership with WHOOP to enhance volunteer experience for ongoing COVID-19 Vaccine trials

  • Date: 14-Aug-2020
  • Source: Bizbahrain
  • Sector:Healthcare
  • Country:GCC
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G42 Healthcare announces partnership with WHOOP to enhance volunteer experience for ongoing COVID-19 Vaccine trials

G42 Healthcare has announced a volunteer healthcare management programme with Boston-based wearable technology firm WHOOP. The partnership will offer volunteers participating in the world's first Phase III trials of an COVID-19 vaccine the opportunity to benefit from a 24/7 fitness and health monitor to measure key biometrics. This is the first trial of its kind to feature wearable technology and will include thousands of volunteers who are participating in the trials. The Whoop4Humanity initiative ensures that volunteers who now join the clinical trials at ADNEC in Abu Dhabi and the Al Qarain Center in Sharjah, including those coming in for the second dose, can further enhance their volunteer journey by using the new wearable devices which will enable them to check their daily heart rate, respiratory rate, heart