Becker's Healthcare August 18, 2021
Stanford (Calif.) Medicine has invested millions of dollars into wearables such as the Apple Watch and Fitbit to research their effectiveness in detecting patients’ vitals, Insider reported Aug. 18.
Stanford has been working with Apple on a study to assess whether smartwatches can detect irregular heartbeats, and the university also is exploring whether other consumer devices like Fitbits and Oura Rings can give physicians better insights into patients’ health by taking more frequent and accurate measurements compared to office visits.
The health system’s goal is to determine whether the data collected from wearables is useful to physicians and then how to efficiently extract it from the devices, Michael Snyder, PhD, who leads many of Stanford’s wearables projects, told...
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