Becker's Healthcare April 14, 2020
Stanford (Calif.) Medicine is teaming up with Scripps Research and Fitbit on a new study that aims to detect viral infections such as COVID-19 through data collected from wearable devices.
Fitbit will donate 1,000 smartwatches to the research project, which is being led by Michael Snyder, PhD, genetics chair at the Stanford School of Medicine. Dr. Snyder’s research is based on an algorithm that he created in 2017 with Xiao Li, PhD, an assistant professor in Cleveland-based Case Western Reserve University’s Center for RNA Science and Therapeutics. The algorithm showed it is possible to detect infection by using data from a change in heart rate.
“Smartwatches and other wearables make many, many measurements per day — at least...
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