Health Europa December 20, 2021
Remote monitoring of health-related behaviour with wearable technology is feasible for people with complex health conditions, shows a recent University of Waterloo study.
Wearable technology are electronic devices that are physically worn by individuals to track their personal data. Common examples of wearables include Fitbit’s, virtual reality devices and other gadgets that can be worn.
However, wearable technology can provide insight into patterns of health-related behaviour and disease symptoms, which allows researchers to analyse individuals remotely.
The study, Feasibility of a continuous, multi-sensor remote health monitoring approach in persons living with neurodegenerative disease, co-authored by Godkin, Van Ooteghem and others at Waterloo, alongside other investigators within the Ontario Neurodegenerative Disease Research Initiative, was published in Journal of Neurology.
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