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Amanda Pickford, founder of Shock Innovations By Ian McConnell A BORDERS firm has seen its thermal-imaging technology deployed in hospitals in the battle against coronavirus after securing early-stage loan funding from two Scottish Government-backed initiatives. Shock Innovations, which trades under the ThermaFY name and is based in Kelso, has used the loans to help fund development of its technology. The firm, which was a thermal camera hardware distributor, found users of the technology needed compatible and accessible software. Its founder, Amanda Pickford, turned to software and a...

A company has seen its thermal-imaging technology used in hospitals to tackle the Covid pandemic. Shock Innovations, which trades as ThermaFY, has developed its technology on the back of government loans. The Kelso-based firm’s founder, Amanda Pickford, was approached by a large NHS trust looking to install automated temperature-scanning stations across its hospitals in Chelsea and Westminster and West Middlesex. Ms Pickford said: “During the first pilot our systems scanned over 150,000 people in just three months. “Now the stations are a permanent feature, scanning over 7,000 patients...