Healthcare IT News April 17, 2020
“We see an enormous opportunity to enhance disease tracking for improved population health during the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Scripps Research Translational Institute’s Dr. Eric Topol.
Scripps Health and Stanford Medicine have joined with Fitbit for a new study to gauge how well wearable devices can help track, trace and isolate COVID-19 and other infectious diseases.
WHY IT MATTERS
The Scripps Research Translational Institute recently launched an app-based research program called DETECT that can analyze wearable health data – such as activity levels, heart rate and sleep – to more quickly detect viral illnesses caused by coronavirus, influenza or other infectious diseases.
The Stanford Healthcare Innovation lab, meanwhile, recently launched its own COVID-19 wearables study, which is exploring how data collected...
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