Brigham and Women’s, Samsung explore connection between digital wearables and wellness

Healthcare Finance News October 6, 2023
Susan Morse

The research uses Galaxy Watch biometric data to explore how to build a more effective, personalized picture of individuals’ health.

Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, a founding member of Mass General Brigham and a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, is partnering with Samsung Medical Center in South Korea to research how digital wearables affect wellness.

Brigham and Women’s will use Galaxy Watch biometric data to explore how clarifying the twin concepts of resilience and frailty can build a more effective, personalized picture of individuals’ health, according to Samsung.

“Through our work with Samsung, we are exploring how to put concepts like resilience and frailty into quantifiable terms and investigate how seemingly disparate physiologic systems affect each other,” said...

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