VideoVisit: against COVID-19 ^Company

Entity: VideoVisit
Category: HealthTech
Description: VideoVisit® HOME is a remote home care service targeted specially to home care, rehabilitation and disability services. It allows remote caregivers to provide face-to-face support and companionship to the clients in their independent living at home.

Project: TechForce19 challenge
. Summary: People who may be particularly vulnerable or isolated during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, including new parents, the homeless, unpaid carers, young people and cancer patients, could soon benefit from a range of innovative digital solutions selected as part of the TechForce19 challenge. NHSX, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and the Ministry for Housing Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) have announced 18 innovative digital solutions being awarded up to £25,000 under the TechForce19 challenge. The funding for each project will be used to develop new ways to support vulnerable people who need to stay at home or need other help in the community for extended periods of time.
VideoVisit® HOME allows the elderly to communicate with their family members and home care providers through a virtual care tablet designed specifically for elderly. VideoVisit will measure how this virtual home care service can increase people’s feeling of safety and decrease loneliness during self-isolation in UK.

+ Investors:

. Techforce19.uk, NHSX. VideoVisits received investment from Techforce19.uk\NHSX, after a call on all innovators who can support the elderly, vulnerable and self-isolating during COVID-19 to apply for government funding of up to £25,000 to test their solution.
. Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC)
. Ministry for Housing Communities and Local Government (MHCLG)