Taking the Pulse of Wearable Devices and Apps for Clinical Trials
By Joseph Constance Wearable devices and apps stand to significantly impact the data available from clinical trials. Wearables and apps help generate sets of longitudinal…
Tag: Digital Health
Stanford Develops Smartphone App that Can Detect COVID-19: Prepares to Release to 10m Users
What if a “smartwatch” could detect COVID-19 before symptoms even arose? That’s just may be a reality as some hard working, brilliant Stanford University School…
University of Southampton Innovation with Remote Patient Monitoring of COVID-19 Patients in New ‘Virtual Ward’
Researchers from the University of Southampton IT Innovation Centre secured a significant MHX project with North and Mid Hants Integrated Care Partnership and the Wessex…
UK MHRA Gives Greenlight for ‘ROCSTAR’ Multicenter Study Testing Prospective Treatment for Persistent Atrial Fibrillation
Rhythm AI recently notified the market that their multicenter ‘ROCSTAR’ clinical trial was given the green light by the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory…
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…
Is BioFourmis a Digital Therapeutics Giant in the Making? Softbank Leads $100m Series C & Future Looks Bright
SoftBank and its Vision Fund 2 led a $100 million series C investment in Biofourmis, a fast-growing global leader in digital therapeutics that powers personalized…
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…
University of Melbourne Leads Clinical Trial to Assess Digital App to Monitor COVID-19 Symptoms from Home & Identify Mental Health Needs
Investigators at the University of Melbourne’s Department of General Practice lead a clinical trial to investigate the safety and efficacy of CovidCare, a new app…
Stanford Medicine Receives for $2.5m for Digital Tools for Cardiovascular Clinical Research
Stanford Medicine’s Center for Digital Health received $2.5 million from the American Heart Association to investigate how digital technology can improve cardiovascular health. The grant…
Google Touts Technology Initiatives in Support of War Against COVID-19
Academic medical centers, in America and elsewhere, have undertaken a massive pivot to take on the war against SARS-CoV-2. These multi-faceted centers possess a very important…