A FitBit for Illness: The Start of Human-Centered Healthcare

KEY POINTS

• Patients are using wearables focused on managing symptoms of an illness, rather than improving fitness.
• The devices enable partnerships with universities to design research that directly benefit patients.
• The mission is to leverage patient expertise to treat illnesses and fill gaps in traditional medicine.

When Harry Leeming first got sick with Covid in March 2020, it set him on a journey to build a company that could help transform the science of chronic illness.

But it started out as just pure, unexplainable suffering.

Leeming never seemed to recover from the viral infection, developing a case of long Covid. For months,...