"We see an untapped potential in how wearable devices equipped with accelerometers can measure exercise, and how that data can be used by clinicians to 'identify optimal timing for treatment' of chronic conditions, obesity-related issues and rehabilitation, among others." Stanford University is launching a new lab designed to pull measurable and meaningful data from wearable [...]
"Being able to put a number to and measure things like physical activity and then relate this to risk of disease was something we thought the average person would find important. We set out to convert this understanding of health measurement and disease into a software platform that could be easily used and understood [...]
In the News Vivametrica Cofounder to lead Stanford Center for Mobile Medical Technology Medical Research Center Established to Harness the Full Potential of Mobile Technologies in the Healthcare Space CALGARY, Alberta, Oct. 9, 2014 /CNW/ -- While the wearable technology market continues to grow rapidly, questions remain as to how this collected data [...]
John Koetsier of VentureBeat discusses Vivametrica http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9io8APBbr2w&t=7m30s
"Patients and your clients will find value in connecting data to create personalised risk assessments for chronic conditions like heart disease, diabetes, and back pain, along with creating actionable health targets." Solutions providers will find opportunities in standardising data, calibrating data, and securing it through all points of the communications process. It will be beneficial [...]
As wearables collect more and more data, this will mean more and newer needs around analytics. Companies like Canadian startup, Vivametrica, are working to bridge the gap between the data that wearables provide, and clinical applications. Security And Beyond With the increased use of this data comes new concerns around security. According to Vivametrica’s CEO, [...]
"Of course, an analytics platform is only as good as the data it uses, and as such Vivametrica is taking steps to standardize the somewhat variable output of consumer mHealth devices." The market for mHealth data aggregation platforms has become increasingly congested over the past year, with Apple ($AAPL) and Google ($GOOG) joining the more [...]
For this 'Startup of the week' post, Maneesh caught up with Dr Richard Hu, Founder and CEO of Canadian startup, Vivametrica. The impetus to begin working on Vivametrica came from an accumulation of past experience with clinical care and research. However, the “aha moment” came when Dr. Hu started doing more in depth investigation of activity monitors [...]
"The company is very proud of its executive team that is comprised of experts in the fields of health, medicine and business." A company called Vivametrica is looking to leverage data produced by wearable devices and turn it into meaningful healthcare decisions. So they're introducing what they say is the first-of-its-kind wearable analytics platform, [...]
"So why is it exciting that we now have heart rate sensors AND accelerometers in the same place? Think Jerry McGuire: they complete each other." Apple recently gave us its big reveal: a smartwatch. Among the proposed sensors on this watch are a heart rate monitor and an accelerometer. As an exercise scientist, the presence [...]