Medical Xpress December 20, 2021
Remote monitoring of health-related behavior with wearable sensor technology is feasible for people with complex health conditions, shows a recent University of Waterloo study.
“Information from wearables can provide insight into patterns of health-related behavior and disease symptoms as they occur over days and weeks. This may be important for monitoring disease progression and the impact of therapeutics, supplementary to assessments conducted in the clinic,” said Karen Van Ooteghem, a researcher in Kinesiology and Health Sciences at Waterloo. “Within our research program, we carry out work to validate novel outcomes derived from wearables for these purposes and develop avenues to relay this information to patients and clinicians.”
It was important for researchers to understand feasibility in participants’ natural environments because...
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