Healthcare IT Today May 20, 2020
Scripps Research and Stanford Medicine are collaborating with wearables vendor Fitbit to see if the data its devices collect can help detect, track and manage infectious diseases such as COVID-19.
The Stanford Healthcare Innovation Lab has launched a study to see whether data collected from wearables, including Fitbit devices, can be leveraged to predict the onset of infectious diseases such as COVID-19 before actual symptoms being to appear. The study relies on data such as heart rate, skin temperature and blood oxygen saturation.
The announcement follows on work by Scripps Research Translational Institute looking at how wearables might help manage flu epidemics. Its research suggests that wearables data can be used to let health officials know about emerging flu outbreaks...
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