Shimmer Research, a global leader in wearable technology for research applications, today announced that its Verisense™ wearable sensing platform, which was developed specifically for clinical trials, has been awarded the 2020 Best of Sensors: Most Innovative Product...
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Orange County’s VivoSense Secures a Small but Potentially Important NIH/NCI Grant for ‘Cancer Health Informatics Platform’
VivoSense Inc has been awarded an NIH/NCI Phase 1 contract to develop software enabling data integration from wearable sensors for cancer patients. The contract will result in the development of the VivoSense Cancer Health Informatics Platform as the leading wearable...
UC Irvine Professor Taking SARS-CoV-19 Wearable Detection Product into Preclinical Studies: Human Trials Anticipated End of Year
What if there was a way to identify if an individual’s immune response is reacting to the SARS-CoV-2 virus in real time? Sounds like science fiction material,but based on the notice of a recent $2.125 million funding deal involving a San Diego-based life sciences...
Duke University ‘CovIdentify’ Study: Can Smartphones & Wearables Detect SARS-CoV-2?
Launched Jessilyn Dunn, by an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Duke University, the CovIdentify study was set up so that smartphones, FitBits, Apple Watches and other devices can be employed to monitor for early signs of SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind...
Google Announces Fitbit Acquisition: Opens the Door to Next Level of Decentralized Clinical Research
Google will acquire Fitbit, Inc. (FIT) for $7.35 per share in cash, valuing the company at $2.1 billion. With the move to decentralized clinical research, powered by wearables and cloud computing technologies, the Google Fitbit marriage opens up powerful new...
Intermountain Healthcare Investigators Utilize Wearable Technologies
Intermountain Healthcare researchers are utilizing wearable technology in the form of wrist-worn step trackers to determine how far patients with the pulmonary disease can walk within six minutes. Long considered an effective clinical tool augmenting physician...
Litmus Health Announces End-to-End Data Science Platform for Clinical Research
Litmus Health has announced their research-ready infrastructure platform form real world data. TrialSite News provides a breakdown of this real-world data platform. Who is Litmus Health? Formed in 2015, Litmus Health is a data science platform for early-stage clinical...
MC10 & AbbVie Form Alliance to Using BioStamp nPoint® System in MS Clinical Trials
MC10, a healthcare technology company specializing in wearable digital health sensors, and major American biopharmaceutical company AbbVie (ABBV) reports they are collaborating on clinical trials designed to explore a range of outcome measures in patients with...
Evidation Health Studies Humana Data Concludes Correlation Between Wearables & Better Outcomes
Evidation Health, a digital health tracking venture, reports that based on its recent study it can make a link between consumer-facing activity trackers and clinical outcomes. The mHealth study shows that wearables can help those with chronic conditions and improve...
European Pharma to Develop MOBILISE-D: Wearables Technology Assessing Loss in Mobility
Researchers from Europe are teaming with the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) to develop sensor technology that assesses the loss in mobility. Funded with €50 from the European Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 Joint...
CRO ICON Positions Digital for Greater Patient Trial Participation
$2.6 billion, global contract research organization (CRO) ICON’s CIO Tom O’Leary believes telemedicine, wearables and AI could boost clinical-trial participation reports Jessica Twentyman of Diginomica. Based in Dublin, ICON is one of the top 10 CROs worldwide....
CRO ICON Mobilizing Wearables & Analytics to Support 100,000 Patients in Trials Worldwide
ICON is a tier-1 contract research organization (CRO). Computer Weekly reports they now manage nearly 100,000 patients participating in clinical trials at about 100 locations worldwide. ICON employs 14,000 and currently enjoys a $7.1 billion market capitalization....
Johnson & Johnson and Apple Launching Virtual Study to Improve AFib Outcomes
Johnson & Johnson will benefit from the recent Apple and Stanford “App” study as they prepare to collaborate with Apple to assess the impact of wearable technology on earlier detection of AFib as well as the goal to improve diagnosis and patient outcomes. Up to...
Apple App & Stanford Study Demonstrate the Power of Wearable Tech to Detect Atrial Fibrillation
In 2017 Apple and Stanford University launched a major initiative of more than 400,000 individuals to study whether a mobile app using data from a heart-rate pulse sensor on the Apple Watch can identify atrial fibrillation. This condition, usually a precursor to more...
Shimmer Announces Wearable Sensor Platform for Clinical Trials
TrialSite News breaks down the recent “wearable sensor platform” news from Shimmer. Who is Shinner? Founded based on Intel technology in 2006, Shimmer is a well-established wearable technologies services and sensor manufacturing company based in Dublin, Ireland. In...
Fitbit & NIH Launch Digital Health Initiative
Fitbit (NYSE:FIT), the leading global wearables brand, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) today launched the Fitbit Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) project, the first digital health technology initiative for the All of Us Research Program. Fitbit users currently...
Florida Start Up Lands $1.2 Million for Diabetes Monitoring
Tech start up Alertgy secured an initial $1.2 million in funding to develop a non-invasive diabetes blood glucose monitoring technology. Founded in 2016, The Alertgy GM is a band that the patient can wear around the wrist and works with an app on the individual’s...
Wearables for Clinical Trials Competitive Battle Heats Up
As reported in APNews, Garmin International (united of Garmin Ltd) (NASDAQ: GRMN) announced a collaboration with ActiGraph to explore development of innovative health and activity monitoring solutions that could be utilized Garmin wearables and ActiGraph’s CentrePoint...
Digital Health Challenges- Security and Privacy Risks Linked to Wearable Devices
As reported by Laurel Ranger in Medical Bag, wearable technology (devices to control pain, etc.) are associated with significant privacy and security concerns according to an article recently published in Health Informatics Journal. See. Ms. Ranger’s commentary for...
Apple Heart Study the Largest Ever
Robbie Gonzalez of Wired reports Apple started sending recruitment emails for a research project. The leading tech company was recruiting owners of its smartwatch to participate in the Apple Heart Study—a Stanford-led investigation into the wearable’s ability to sense...