Medical Xpress January 28, 2022
Duke researchers are investigating whether data from your smartphone and smartwatch can help determine if you have COVID-19 and how severe the infection could get. Their work has the potential to help avoid future pandemics, but they need more participants to enroll.
The COVIDentify study, led by Jessilyn Dunn, Ph.D., and her team in the Duke BIG IDEAs Lab, uses mobile and wearable devices as tools to learn more about how the novel coronavirus spreads in our community. In collaboration with Ryan Shaw, Ph.D., RN, and his team at Duke Mobile App Gateway in the Duke School of Medicine’s Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), the team distributed wearable devices to underserved populations in North Carolina at the beginning...