Chief Healthcare Executive February 22, 2021
Data collected on the Apple Watch may help identify COVID-19.
Heart rate variability metrics collected from an Apple Watch can predict the diagnosis of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and identify COVID-19-related symptoms.
The preliminary results, completed on a group of healthcare workers, identified a novel, easily measured physiological metric that could aid in the tracking and identification of COVID-19 infections.
Robert Hirten, M.D., and investigators of the study followed healthcare workers in the Mount Sinai Health System as they used the wearable and a custom Warrior Watch Study app to see if the data collected would help identify and predict the disease and related symptoms.
The primary goal of the study was to determine whether changes in heart rate...
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