Medical Xpress February 18, 2022
Wearable activity trackers are not only popular with consumers but also commonly employed by clinicians for both real-time and remote monitoring of patients’ physical fitness. When these devices are used as healthcare monitoring tools in medical research studies, however, there’s an issue: inconsistency. To help remedy this, a team led by University of California, Irvine researchers has developed a framework for standardizing data collection and reporting.
The study was recently published online in the International Journal of Medical Informatics.
“Activity trackers capture personalized data that can provide insights in healthcare analytics and user feedback on health status, for both patients and healthy individuals, but there’s a lack of standardization in reporting on the metrics they generate,” said corresponding author Alexandre...
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