Three reasons why experts remain cautious about wearable generated health data: - no international standards for hardware/software/data formats - movement (of wearer + wearable itself) creates noise in the data - batteries not powerful enough for continuous monitoring www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... - ThreadSky

zsk.bsky.social • 93 days ago

Three reasons why experts remain cautious about wearable generated health data:
- no international standards for hardware/software/data formats
- movement (of wearer + wearable itself) creates noise in the data
- batteries not powerful enough for continuous monitoring

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c79zpzdv4vno

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nash0rn.bsky.social•93 days ago

Does anyone think about the environmental impact of collecting huge amounts of useless data from millions of devices?

karlpettersson.bsky.social•93 days ago

If “gastric flu” is caused by norovirus, it usually has short incubation time (<2 days) before overt symptoms (so the alert may have been unrelated to the illness that would follow).

xavierdevally.bsky.social•81 days ago

If you ever want to do a follow up on this and want a perspective of someone who was alerted to go to their Dr by their watch and it turns out the watch was 100% correct let me know. Got my own experience now.

leighturnerwriter.bsky.social•93 days ago

Great to see you over here. After over a decade on the legacy platform I've just about stopped using it. Look forward to following your (excellent) stories.

mac-interactive.co.uk•93 days ago

A few years ago at a time of great stress I was able to record ECG data showing heart palpitations using my Apple Watch ⌚️ My doctor said it was useful as that data can be difficult to capture using conventional ECG equipment.

sdvr.bsky.social•93 days ago

I did work a few years back on potential of home-based/wearable in cystic fibrosis, which already has high burden of self-management for people with CF. A big ask for people to do more self-management. Challenges integrating wearable data into EHR systems/clinic processes…
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3359223

sdvr.bsky.social•93 days ago

What that exploratory work found was that despite wearable/home based tech being very promising in some respects in CF - with potential to reduce unnecessary clinic visits (improving early detection of exacerbations), many benefits could be realised by a simple video call w/patients in advance of…

sdvr.bsky.social•93 days ago

their regularly scheduled quarterly clinic appointments, to see if they are doing well (and could “skip” an appointment). Conducted by CF nurses, and only with those people living with CF who are confident. Avoids costs of deploy and integrating devices with EHRs/clinical processes. 80/20 rule.

sdvr.bsky.social•93 days ago

Both wearable tech and treatments for CF (eg Kaftrio) have progressed markedly in last 6 years - picture may well be somewhat different now: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1386505624001953

But key questions around integration into daily life and MDT IT systems remain

sdvr.bsky.social•93 days ago

So things like health anxiety are definitely an issue in CF - even when these might be balanced against potentially significant impacts for early detection of exacerbation.

In other conditions different aspects also come into play - motivations, relative burdens of home self management etc

zsk.bsky.social•93 days ago

That is fascinating

sdvr.bsky.social•93 days ago

There is undoubtedly more recent, less exploratory work on this particular use case - I’d have loved to have taken it further, but it was a fixed term project I was involved with - would highlight specific considerations in CF. But thought you’d be potentially interested in some of the complexities!

sdvr.bsky.social•93 days ago

What I found really interesting in CF was:
1) talk of “telecare” had been ongoing for many years there - due to cross-infection risks with in person clinics - but still rarely implemented
2) conversely it was established in Australia due to distances
3) 2yrs later Covid hit - so *had* to switch!

dancondon89.bsky.social•93 days ago

I really want one of those rings but they're still too expensive right now.

matthwilliams.bsky.social•93 days ago

We have done this in the BrainWear & BrainApp trials

Wearables & other tech. Early data show wearables clearly measure something different to QoL, and changes in speech related to disease progression

Upcoming BrainWear2 trial will extend this

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37224155/

inners.bsky.social•93 days ago

Sounds like medical wearables are the future, though. As technology and AI improve, continual health and well-being assessment is only going to become more mainstream.

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