Healthcare DIVE December 1, 2020
Nick Paul Taylor

Dive Brief:

  • Fitbit has published data on its effort to develop an algorithm that detects COVID-19 using wearables before symptoms start.
  • Writing in the Nature journal npj digital medicine, researchers showed variables such as respiration rate and heart rate change in the days preceding the emergence of symptoms of respiratory disease. With a reported 90% sensitivity, the algorithm may detect 21% of cases the day before symptoms show.
  • The algorithm is yet to be validated in a prospective study. Fitbit is working with Northwell Health to validate the algorithm’s early detection of COVID-19.

Dive Insight:

Efforts to use data from wearables such as Fitbit devices in the monitoring of infectious diseases predates the coronavirus pandemic, with groups at...

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Topics: Digital Health, Govt Agencies, Healthcare System, Patient / Consumer, Provider, Public Health / COVID, Technology, Wearables
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