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Two very interesting news articles I read this morning, on the opposite extreme: 🔹 Wearable Diagnostics: Imagine using a single-channel ECG to achieve polysomnography-level accuracy. This remarkable development shows how wearables are becoming more powerful in performing existing diagnostics. With such advancements, everyday consumers can benefit from clinical-grade health monitoring, opening up new possibilities for preventative health. 🌟 Read more here: https://t.ly/ulsdr 🔹 Deepening Brain Insights: On the other side of the spectrum, our understanding of the brain is reaching new depths. Recent research has identified the claustrum, a brain region that regulates alertness during sleep. Leveraging these findings could pave the way for innovative therapies to treat sleep disturbances and other related conditions. 🧠 Explore the study here. https://t.ly/45pzF It's fascinating to witness developments on all ends of the spectrum when it comes to body and brain health. I am excited about a future where these findings can be used for: - User awareness: Empowering individuals to understand and influence their own actions. - Context awareness: Enabling family, caretakers, and the environment to better support and respond to your needs. - Smart environments: Creating spaces that react to personal needs for comfort and therapy. #HealthTech #Wearables #Neurotech #PreventativeHealth #SleepScience #Innovation #FutureOfHealthcare

Thoughts on this? >> FDA approves Apple Watch for sleep apnea risk & AirPods Pro as hearing aids >> Comment below! >>> socialpharma.net #digitalhealth #industry40 #healthcare #mhealth #wearables #AI #IoT #healthtech

Trying to get better with health and sleep got me into an ŌURA Ring. It's a smaller sample size, and it doesn't compare some of the key players in the wearable space, but the info is headed in the right direction. Stoked to dive into the study. What tools are you using to track your health, activity, and sleep? https://lnkd.in/gH3RWiNm #Sleep #Performance #HighPerformers

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#ScienceSpotlight “Development of digital measures for nighttime scratch and sleep using wrist-worn wearable devices” Pruritus, commonly known as itching, is a primary symptom in many chronic eczematous conditions, particularly in patients with atopic dermatitis. This relentless itch often leads to scratching, which in turn causes further inflammation and lesions, intensifying the pruritus and creating a vicious itch-scratch cycle. Adding to the challenge, pruritus frequently worsens in the evening and at night, leading to disrupted sleep. This nightly battle not only affects patients but also impacts caregivers, significantly reducing everyone's quality of life. Study design and experimental protocol: Participants were monitored for four nights: two nights in a sleep laboratory (in-clinic) and two nights at home. “We investigated the use of accelerometer and temperature data captured by wrist-worn wearable devices for monitoring sleep and nighttime scratching in patients with AD. The proposed approach was developed with the goal of continuously capturing objective, non-invasive, high-resolution measurements during a patient’s daily life, and enabling scalable deployment in clinical studies. Digital measures of sleep quantity and nighttime scratch showed high correlation with corresponding reference measures of sleep quantity (obtained from PSG) and scratch (obtained from in-clinic video recordings).” Read the full paper here: https://lnkd.in/dSguNUHt Authors: Nikhil Mahadevan, Yiorgos Christakis, Junrui Di, Jonathan Bruno, Yao Zhang, E. Ray Dorsey, Wilfred R. Pigeon, Lisa A. Beck, Kevin Thomas, Yaqi Liu, Madisen Wicker, Chris Brooks, Nina Shaafi Kabiri, Jaspreet Bhangu, Carrie Northcott and Shyamal Patel Boston University School of Medicine University of Rochester Pfizer / Pfizer Medical

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Evaluating reliability in wearable devices for sleep staging - npj Digital Medicine Summary: #WearableDevicesReliability A recent study published in Nature evaluates the reliability of wearable devices for sleep staging. The study focuses on the accuracy and consistency of these devices in monitoring sleep patterns. #SleepStagingAccuracy The study found that wearable devices can provide accurate data for sleep staging, with similar results to traditional polysomnography tests. This suggests that wearable devices can be a reliable alternative for monitoring sleep patterns. #ConsistencyInMonitoring One key finding of the study is the consistency of wearable devices in monitoring sleep patterns over time. This indicates that these devices can provide reliable data for long-term sleep tracking. #ChallengesAndLimitations Despite their reliability, wearable devices still face challenges and limitations in accurately monitoring sleep patterns ai.mediformatica.com #data #health #devices #sensors #algorithm #review #this #validation #digital #analysis #wearabledevices #wearables #digitalhealth #healthit #healthtech #healthcaretechnology @MediFormatica (https://buff.ly/4czoOIT)

Outsourcing-Pharma's Liza Laws talks with ActiGraph’s CSO Christine Cong Guo about the transformative potential of wearables in providing accurate, real-world sleep data 💤 Check out the full article to learn more about how this type of data can improve patient outcomes ⏩ https://hubs.la/Q02GyrfG0 #Wearable #SleepData #ClinicalTrials #PatientCentricity

At Oura, we hold ourselves to a high standard when it comes to accuracy. We’re not measuring ourselves against other consumer wearables but against gold-standard laboratory testing. Nothing can replicate a lab setting - but we believe that Oura Ring is the next best thing. In a recent study by the Centre for Sleep and Cognition at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Oura performed the best overall both for sleep and wake detection as well as sleep staging as compared to the gold-standard electroencephalogram (EEG). Accuracy matters when it comes to understanding your health; that’s why we put so much investment, time, and research into developing and validating our algorithms so that our members can trust the data they receive and use it to make real changes in their lives. You can read the full study here: bit.ly/442mQwB

Interesting systematic review looking at the accuracy of the Apple Watch O2 saturation monitor. Assuming the technology was accurate enough, this is the technology that potentially could be deployed to detect/monitor sleep disorders like sleep apnea or lung disorders like COPD (although the COPD would have to be more advanced for the watch to pick it up). Some thoughts: 1.) This technology has moderate accuracy, with about 80% agreement to gold standard measurements of blood oxygenation. 2.) A normal reading with this technology would not be accurate enough to say you don't have a lung/sleep disorder. 3.) An abnormal reading is not accurate enough to directly diagnose any sleep/lung disorders. 4.) HOWEVER the technology is accurate enough that an abnormal reading would be enough to prompt further investigation via gold standard metrics like a sleep study and/or spirometry, depending on when the abnormal readings were occurring. This is assuming the patient was regularly getting abnormal oxygenation readings (ie not just one or two abnormal results). 5.) For COPD: this technology would probably be more valuable for monitoring, where you would trend the O2 sat over time, rather than for detection. #medtech #telemedicine #obstructivesleepapnea #osa