ReviewFrontiers in digital health2020
Wearable Sensors for COVID-19: A Call to Action to Harness Our Digital Infrastructure for Remote Patient Monitoring and Virtual Assessments.
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- Recommendations for Defining and Reporting Adherence Measured by Biometric Monitoring Technologies: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Pooled it
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- Sleep and cardiorespiratory function assessed by a smart bed over 10 weeks post COVID-19 infection.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Demonstrating public health impacts of translational science at the clinical and translational science collaborative (CTSC) of northern Ohio: a mixed-methods approach using the translational science benefits model.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- A study on the impact of digital infrastructure development on the health of low-income rural residents: based on panel data from 2010 to 2022.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Self-supervised learning for human activity recognition using 700,000 person-days of wearable data.NPJ digital medicine · 2024Article
- Use of artificial intelligence to develop predictive algorithms of cough and PCR-confirmed COVID-19 infections based on inputs from clinical-grade wearable sensors.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Acceptance and User Experiences of a Wearable Device for the Management of Hospitalized Patients in COVID-19-Designated Wards in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: Action Learning Project.JMIR human factors · 2024Article
- Utilisation of the web-based Home Assessment Tool among patients with COVID-19 in Selangor, Malaysia: An observational study.Malaysian family physician : the official journal of the Academy of Family Physicians of Malaysia · 2024Article
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp focus the need to harness and leverage our digital infrastructure for remote patient monitoring. As current viral tests and vaccines are slow to emerge, we see a need for more robust disease detection and monitoring of individual and population health, which could be aided by wearable sensors. While the utility of this technology has been used to correlate physiological metrics to daily living and human performance, the translation of such technology toward predicting the incidence of COVID-19 remains a necessity. When used in conjunction with predictive platforms, users of wearable devices could be alerted when changes in their metrics match those associated with COVID-19. Anonymous data localized to regions such as neighborhoods or zip codes could provide public health officials and researchers a valuable tool to track and mitigate the spread of the virus, particularly during a second wave. Identifiable data, for example remote monitoring of cohorts (family, businesses, and facilities) associated with individuals diagnosed with COVID-19, can provide valuable data such as acceleration of transmission and symptom onset. This manuscript describes clinically relevant physiological metrics which can be measured from commercial devices today and highlights their role in tracking the health, stability, and recovery of COVID-19+ individuals and front-line workers. Our goal disseminating from this paper is to initiate a call to action among front-line workers and engineers toward developing digital health platforms for monitoring and managing this pandemic.
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