Healthcare Innovation February 16, 2020
Will serve as a community hub, indexing, distributing and benchmarking algorithms
Several stakeholders in wearable health technology have formed the Open Wearables Initiative (OWEAR) to promote the effective use of high-quality, sensor-generated measures of health in clinical research through the open sharing and benchmarking of algorithms and datasets.
Wearables, ingestible sensors and in-home monitoring technologies offer the opportunity to assess an individual’s health continuously, objectively and in real time. However, the initiative notes that the lack of accepted endpoints is proving to be a major impediment to the adoption of these digital measures in clinical trials. (For example, reducing blood pressure is the primary endpoint for hypertension control.)
OWEAR will leverage the work of thousands of researchers from academia, pharma,...
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