Vivametrica is an analytics company that aggregates data from fitness trackers and other wearable devices. A personal injury lawsuit is using Fitbit data processed through Vivametrica to demonstrate how an accident reduced the plaintiff's activity levels compared to her peers. This is the first known case to use objective fitness tracker data as legal evidence. Vivametrica aims to standardize wearable data and compare individuals' metrics to population health benchmarks to provide personalized health and risk assessments.

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Heyyy! NICE e-bracelet You’ve Got There…
SHAME If Someone Were to SUBPOENA it
The data is being used in this case by the
plaintiff, but its value is obvious to either side
of future lawsuits. If someone is known to
have objective data about their personal
movement, an insurance company, for
example, could subpoena the individual, or
device manufacturer, or in fact any
company that has access to the data, to
hand it over.
In this case, the information will come from
analytics firm Vivametrica, which gathers
sensor readings from wearables and
compares them to the health of the
population. The plaintiff will go through an
“assessment” period wearing a Fitbit and
running the numbers through Vivametrica to
see how she compares to other women.
The Fitbit tracks movement to an impressive
degree, providing users with feedback on
not only their general activity but also their
sleep patterns.
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Fitbit Data Now Being Used In The Courtroom
Personal injury cases are prime targets for
manipulation and conjecture. How do you
show that someone who’s been in a car
accident can’t do their job properly, and
deserves thousands of dollars in
compensation? Till now lawyers have relied
on doctors to observe someone for half an
hour or so and give their, sometimes-biased
opinion. Soon, they might also tap the
wealth of quantifiable data provided by
fitness trackers. A law firm in Calgary is
working on the first known personal injury
case that will use activity data from a Fitbit
to help show the effects of an accident on
their client.
The young woman in question was injured in
an accident four years ago. Back then,
Fitbits weren’t even on the market, but
given that she was a personal trainer, her
lawyers at McLeod Law believe they
can say with confidence that she led an
active lifestyle.
Fitbit Activity Data
As Evidence in
Court, Wearables
Serve As Personal
Black Boxes
Demonstrating the impact of an accident
on one's lifestyle is usually subjective and
rather difficult to prove, but with detailed
data available it becomes much easier to
show trends.
While the data being used in this case
comes from the woman’s Fitbit, it is being
processed through the Vivametrica
analytics platform.
The Microsoft Band: Another Step Forward
For Wearables?
With more than a dozen similar devices now
on the market or planned for release soon
(including high-end, fashionable bracelets
and at least one wristband designed by a
music producer and artist), the so-called
“race to the wrist” is in a full frenzy. But Rick
Hu, CEO of Vivametrica, a Calgary-based
developer of mHealth tools, feels the
healthcare industry isn’t really paying
attention to the devices themselves. They're
watching for the software.

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Expert Witness: Data From a Fitness Tracker
Could Soon Be Used as Evidence-For or
Against You-In Court
Vivametrica promises to bring scientific
rigour to the explosion of data consumers
are collecting on themselves. By comparing
data from wearable trackers to other health
data collected by government agencies
and past medical research studies,
Vivametrica’s doctors can offer a picture of
how someone’s activity level compares to
the general population’s. What's more, the
company says it can use fitness data to
make predictions of someone’s risk of
developing diabetes and heart disease.
That’s useful information for people looking
to improve their long-term health. However,
Vivametrica is initially targeting its services
not at the public, but at law firms, corporate
wellness programs and insurance
companies.
Hu says he’s hopeful the technology will
help people improve their health, whether
for personal satisfactions or to lower
insurance premiums.
Pilot study suggests
wearable devices
can help alleviate
back pain
Vivametrica’s pilot
study, released today, finds that body
mass index is the best predictor of daily
function in people with LSS, suggesting that
weight loss and increased physical activity
may improve the condition. The study also
finds that objective activity measures from
wearable devices eliminate the guesswork
inherent in patient feedback such as
questionnaires, allowing more targeted
treatment. The use of wearable devices
also empowers LSS patients to be more
involved in their own health and
encourages them to change their
behaviour.
“We’re aiming at the person as a whole -
lifestyle change,” says Lane. “What we’re
seeing is that people are losing weight and
becoming more active - but they’re also
having less pain, which is huge.”
In the meantime, Vivametrica is working to
standardise the input and analysis of these
different devices so that, as Lane puts it, “If
you have a Fitbit and your friend has a
Jawbone, you can both access the same
analysis from Vivametrica and it will mean
the same thing, and you’ll get the
information back in the appropriate format
for your device.”
Privacy Concerns Mount as Wearable
Sensors Pop Up Everywhere
Some see the flood of information as a
source of potential. Start-up Vivametrica
plans to take anonymized data from fitness
data and try to forecast cases of health
problems like diabetes or heart disease.
Wearable Technology, Psychadelics and
Other 2015 Predictions
A third-party analytics firm, called
Vivametrica, which will analyze the data and
provide its report with findings to the court,
will be involved versus just submitting raw
data into evidence. This use of data is an
unexpected one, which could set a
challenging precedent as the availability of
such data increases.

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Vivametrica Launches
Health Data Aggregation
Platform for Fitness
Trackers, Apple Watch,
Google Fit
Hu’s company, Vivametrica, is building a
cloud-based platform for aggregating data
from any kind of bio-sensor, from popular
fitness trackers to medical-grade health
sensors. Vivametrica plans to store that
data for you so you can see all the data
from all your devices in one place,
compare it to others who are like you, and
eventually feed that into medical
applications that doctors and HMOs could
use to help prevent illness, diagnose
conditions, track health, and
discover unprecedented insights into what
truly constitutes healthy living.
And not just just to derive averages. Hu
expects to be able to provide specific,
actionable health advice for you, based on
others who are similar in age, sex, health
status, fitness level, geographical location,
and more.
Vivametrica Unveils
Open Source
Healthcare
Analytics Platform
for Wearables
Building on more than decade of clinical
research on the science of exercise, the
company's goal, according to founder
and CEO Dr Richard Hu, is to “take our
research information and apply it as a
data analytics platform, bringing
information in, in a standardised fashion,
making meaningful analysis and providing
tools to consumers, to industry and to
enterprise.”
Hu also says that Vivametrica will
“distribute that information — with
appropriate security and privacy
safeguards — to work as part of further
data analyses in an interactive process.”
Will Analytics Pique Provider Interest in
Wearables?
The answer may very well lie with analytics
– taking data from those devices and
making it useful for doctors. Earlier this year
Vinod Khosla, one of Sun Microsystems co-
founders, predicted that over the next
decade data analytics “will do more for
medicine than all of the biological
sciences together.”
Wearable Sensor Eliminates Painful Prick for
Blood Glucose Monitoring
As more wearable health devices become
available to consumers, we may soon be
faced with loads of data that we don’t
know what to do with. To help consumers
make sense of data gathered by these
health and fitness trackers, a Canadian
startup has launched a platform that aims
to bridge the gap between the hardware
and meaningful health data.
Vivametrica is a service that analyzes data
from wearable sensor devices for the
assessment of health and wellness.

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Doctors Launch Platform to Make
Meaningful Use of Data From Wearable
Devices
Based on years of clinical research linking
activity and health risks, Vivametrica's
device-agnostic platform delivers a
standardized approach to data collection
and management, bridging the gap
between wearable fitness applications and
actionable health data. This combo
promises credible and personalized
assessments, as well as research-backed
analytics. Mentioned assessments can be
used to determine individual risk for chronic
conditions such as heart disease, diabetes
and back pain; and to provide personalized
health targets and goals based on
objective data collection.
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Startup of the Week: 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 I started doing more in depth
investigation of activity monitors on spinal
diseases. That coupled with some recent
health problems in my family acted as a
trigger to convert the knowledge and
relationships that I had accrued over many
years into the development of Vivametrica.
Vivametrica Makes Pitch for mHealth Data
Aggregation and Analysis Market
The market for mHealth data aggregation
platforms has become increasingly
congested over the past year, with Apple
and Google joining the more healthcare
industry-focused Validic. Now Vivametrica
has joined the space, outlining plans for a
platform that fixes the inconsistencies in
data from consumer mHealth products and
combines them with outputs from medical
devices.
ZDNet reports Vivametrica will enter private
beta later this month and hopes to
introduce a free, consumer-focused version
of its platform in December. The platform will
initially pull data from devices such as Fitbit
and aggregators such as Google Fit and
Apple HealthKit for analysis alongside public
health information. By comparing an
individual's data with public datasets,
Vivametrica thinks it can show users how
changing their lifestyle would affect the
probability of certain health outcomes.
Pilot Study Suggests Wearable Devices Can
Help Alleviate Back Pain
Vivametrica’s pilot study, released today,
finds that body mass index is the best
predictor of daily function in people with
LSS, suggesting that weight loss and
increased physical activity may improve the
condition.
Lane says that “80 percent of people will
have lower back pain at some point in their
life” and that the cost to the economy runs
into billions of dollars. Combating ‘diseases
of inactivity’ with a combination of
wearable devices, comparative analytics,
and personalised e-health interventions
could be very big business indeed.

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Activity Trackers to Help Decide Personal
Injury Cases
Don’t look now, but the activity tracker on
your wrist may be the key to victory in the
courtroom -- in the right circumstances, at
least. A Canadian woman embroiled in a
personal injury claims case will soon use
Fitbit data as evidence that an accident
significantly limited her activity levels. She'll
wear a smart band for several months to
determine whether or not she's sufficiently
active for someone in her age group and
job. If she's clearly behind the curve, she
may have strong proof that she deserves
compensation.
Court Sets Legal Precedent With Evidence
From Fitbit Health Tracker
The information for the case will be willingly
provided by the plaintiff and processed by
data company Vivametrica, which
collects data from wearables and
compares it with the activity and health of
the general population. The plaintiff’s
lawyers will use the data in an attempt to
prove the accident’s detrimental affects.
“Till now we’ve always had to rely on
clinical interpretation,” Simon Muller of
McLeod Law firm in Calgary told Forbes.
Calgary Lawyer Using Fitbit Wristband to
Provide Courtroom Evidence of Injury
But Muller began talks with local startup
Vivametrica about a different use for the
device — tracking just how non-active his
client has become.
Vivametrica pulls and analyzes open-
source data from smartphones and
wearable fitness devices to provide
information about health trends and
activity levels. The company will now be
comparing the activity of Muller’s client
against normal people in her age range.
“This is evolving,” Muller said Monday. “This
is new and very cutting edge . . . It is
potentially a new way of objectively
quantifying the subjective reports of injures
people suffer.”
Fitbit Data Used in Court For First Time
However, activities vary from person to
person, and it’s very hard to use this data in
court.
That’s why the lawyers won’t use the data
directly. They will feed the data to analytics
platform Vivametrica, which uses public
research to compare a person’s activity
data with that of the general population.
Muller added that a lot of people want to
use this kind of data for personal injury
claims.
“I’m already lining up more clients with a
variety of circumstances to use this data,” he
says. “You can’t rely on just one piece of
data. You have to get all the pieces lined
up.”
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Fitbit Data is Now Being Used in Court:
Wearable Technology is Set to Revolutionise
Personal Injury and Accident Claims
“The Functional Activity Assessment is
objective and represents a real-world
assessment of function,” said Dr Richard Hu,
founder of Vivametrica. “Appropriate use
of individualised activity data collected by
wearables provides the legal profession
with methods for the early assessment of
the strength of their clients’ cases.”
Move Over DNA, Your Wearable Data Could
Soon Be Used in the Courtroom
Simon Muller, the head of McLeod’s
personal injury practice group, told Forbes
that they will be using the data, to
demonstrate that due to the accident, her
activity levels are now below the baseline of
“someone of her age and profession.” The
firm plans on using an analytics program
called Vivametrica over a period of several
months to process and analyze the Fitbit
data.
Generally in cases of this nature, the
plaintiffs are medically evaluated and the
doctor who examines them shares his
observations in court. But this will be the first
case of its kind to utilize data tracked by
wearables likes Fitbit and could set a
precedent for future claims.
Do Doctors Hate The Internet and New
Technology?
Now that wearable technology, mobile
health applications and e-health uptake is
accelerating rapidly and has been gaining
users and industry attention, the deeper
questions regarding the relationship of new
technology to healthcare providers and
health systems are arising. In particular,
there is scrutiny into how to encourage users
to adopt and regularly use these hardware
and software solutions.
Could Wearable Tech Change the Way
Personal Injury Claims Are Assessed?
Vivametrica can bring in data from a
number of different wearable sensors
including several Fitbit devices, Samsung
Galaxy Gear and Gear Fit, and anything
that feeds data into Apple’s HealthKit. The
normalized data with which the user’s steps
are compared is broken down by age,
gender, body mass index and waist
circumference.
Why Apple Watch Could
Be Good For Your Heart
Rate
Heart rate can tell us
about physiological
processes that the cold and calculating
accelerometers cannot. On the flip side,
accelerometers provide us with accurate
measurement unfettered by our morning
coffee, stressful meeting or bad cough.
Together, these metrics make a very
powerful team.
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Vivametrica Wants to Aggregate Health
Data from Fitness Tracking Wearables
But what if there was an easy way for
doctors and other medical professionals to
access this data to help curb obesity and
prevent other diseases? That vision is
exactly what Vivametrica has in mind with
the launch of their new health data
aggregation platform, which pulls data
from smartphones and wearable fitness
devices to get a big picture of health
trends – with the user’s consent of course.
Wearable Tech Initiative for mHealth
Launched by Team of Doctors
The wearable tech industry specifically for
activity and sports trackers is expected to
reach $1.4 billion within the upcoming two
years . This will allow for a tremendous
collection of activity data. A team of
doctors feels that this presents a massive
opportunity for leveraging that data to
develop resources that will help people to
be able to make meaningful decisions with
regards to their health care. The team is
working under the name Vivametrica.
While Apple HealthKit
Works Out Bugs,
Cleveland Clinic Uses
Microsoft’s HealthVault
Platform to Reach Remote Patients
While the Cleveland Clinic is still waiting for
Apple’s HealthKit Platform to work out its
bugs, the renowned health provider has
quietly been using Microsoft HealthVault to
keep tabs on remote or at-risk patients.
“HealthKit is just one of many tools that we
can use to engage with patients, and there
are many others like [Samsung’s] SAMI, or
Vivametrica,” says Cleveland Clinic’s
associate CIO, Dr. Will Morris.
But HealthVault may be one of the most
mature platforms available to providers,
and Cleveland Clinic is using it to care for
patients in its “Distance Health” program,
Morris told VentureBeat Monday.
Data Normalization: A New Source of Value
for Your Healthcare IT Clients
As much as the talk of health information
exchanges and predictive analytics in
healthcare grows, it’s impossible to ignore
the fact that some basic standards around
data can’t be overlooked if these goals are
to be achieved. One of the biggest is data
normalization.
The Microsoft Band: Another Step Forward
For Wearables?
With more than a dozen similar devices
now on the market or planned for release
soon (including high-end, fashionable
bracelets and at least one wristband
designed by a music producer and artist),
the so-called "race to the wrist" is in a full
frenzy. But Rick Hu, CEO of Vivametrica, a
Calgary-based developer of mHealth tools,
feels the healthcare industry isn't really
paying attention to the devices themselves.
They're watching for the software.

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Vivametrica Launches Health and Fitness
Data Aggregator for Actionable Insights into
Your Wellbeing
Vivametrica are aiming to take the
digitisation of healthcare to a whole new
level. They’ve developed an open source
platform which pools data from wearable
fitness trackers, enriches it with health data,
and examines it through research-proven
analysis to assess and predict health status.
Founder and CEO, Dr. Richard Hu told John
Koetsier of VentureBeat, “This would be the
biggest imaginable pool of people for
researchers to study. It’s an opportunity to
create native information that is out in the
wild that doesn’t get biased or influenced
by study parameters.”
Vivametrica is a cloud-based platform that
will act as a sink for data from wearable
sensor devices, fitness tracker apps and
medical-grade health sensors and then will
help analyze it for assessment of health and
wellness.
Apple Watch is Going to Measure Heart
Rate. So What?
Accelerometers are fabulously accurate for
measuring exercise intensity. They also work
independently from the rest of your life,
emotions and bodily functions. This makes
them a great objective and consistent
metric for monitoring and prescribing
physical activity; and we are just scratching
the surface into the possible applications of
accelerometry in health.
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. Heart rate can tell us
about physiological processes that the cold
and calculating accelerometers cannot. On
the flip side, accelerometers provide us with
accurate measurement unfettered by our
morning coffee, stressful meeting or bad
cough. Together these metrics make a very
powerful team.
HealthBeat 2014: 61 of
Digital Health’s Brightest
Stars to Speak in San
Francisco Monday
and Tuesday
Overall, more than 500 health care
executives, IT decision makers, investors, and
press will discuss trends, highlight solutions,
and showcase breakthrough products in
health care technology, including . . .
Matthew Smuck, MD, Director of the Center
for Medical Mobile Technology, Stanford
University.
If It's Your Wearable, Don’t You Own the
Data?
But with the advent of wearable devices,
such as activity monitors, a new data set is
being produced: activity and health data
powered by you. YOU buy the wearable
and YOU are quite literally the engine that
produces the data derived from the device.
Here’s where things get contentious: Are
YOU the owner of that data?
At Vivametrica, we think the answer is ‘Yes.’

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Wearables in Healthcare – IT Solutions
Providers Highly Dependent on Wearables
Market
Companies like Canadian startup,
Vivametrica are working to bridge the gap
between the data that wearables provide,
and clinical applications. Patients and your
clients will find the most value in connecting
this data to creating personalised risk
assessments for chronic conditions like heart
disease, diabetes, and back pain, along
with creating actionable health targets.
Security And Beyond. With the increased
use of this data comes new concerns
around security. According to
Vivametrica’s CEO, Dr. Richard Hu,
technology like Vivametrica’s will “distribute
that information — with appropriate
security and privacy safeguards — to work
as part of further data analyses in an
interactive process.”
Stanford University Opens Mobile Healthcare
Research Wing
It’s thought that the biometric data and
remote communications provided by the
ongoing mobile revolution can have huge
benefits in the realm of telehealth, allowing
doctors to offer diagnosis and guidance to
patients without requiring them to physically
be in the same room.
Vivametrica is another player in that same
growing field, albeit one that has
specialized in wearable tech. As one of its
co-founders, Dr. Smuck would seem well-
suited to his new role at Stanford, where his
mandate will be to figure out how the
biometric health data collected from
mobile devices can be interpreted and
applied in more meaningful ways. Another
Vivametrica co-founder, Dr. Christy Lane,
will also be on staff at the Stanford Center
for Medical Mobile Technology to provide
expertise in the field of exercise
rehabilitation, a field of study that seems
particularly ripe for biometric enhancement.
Startup of the Week – Vivametrica
The clinical research that led to
Vivametrica’s creation has been ongoing
for years and continues to advance. The
more challenging aspect for us to date
has been coming to understand
everything it will take to grow our
technology, services and organization in a
way that will make us responsive to the
rapidly growing demand for health data
analytics from wearables, which we see as
a vast market, differentiated along several
industry verticals.
Stanford Launches Research Center for
Wearables
With Vivametrica, Lane has been doing a
lot of work with accelerometers. She sees
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. She feels that
many clinicians aren't making the
connection between exercise and
healthcare, and sees the Stanford lab as
an opportunity to prove that point.

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Does Being a Surgeon Qualify You to be a
Successful Startup Entrepreneur?
Medical practice has changed very little
over time. Although diagnostic testing and
surgical techniques have changed
significantly, the fundamental way that we
assess patients and arrange surgical
procedures has remained static. Although
medical practice hasn’t changed much,
many of the things that I have experienced
and learned during training and practice
seem to have prepared me for the ups and
downs of heading-up a technology startup
(I think).
The surgical world is very hierarchical and
for many surgeons it is difficult to
acknowledge and admit that there are
gaps in experience and abilities.
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Waking Up to the New World Order of
Wearables Data Security
At Vivametrica, our focus and skill has
been in the analysis of large data sets that
are typical to the information obtained
through wearable technology and relate
this information to predictors of health,
fitness and disease.
More importantly, as clinical researchers
we are also acutely aware of the
importance of personalized health
information being maintained in a secure
manner with safeguards to prevent
dissemination of this information to
unauthorized individuals or entities.
In the Future of Wearables, the Device
Doesn’t Really Matter
As the wearables market continues to
expand, the winners in the device space
will be those that extend their value
proposition off the user’s wrist, head, hip,
etc., and into practical use cases and
applications at home, work, play and in-
care.
This may happen through acquisitions,
technical partnerships, or perhaps a revised
business focus on infrastructure or data
analytics solutions, but there’s no question
that the devices themselves are the least
important factor in the future of the
wearables market equation.
Forget About Health Data
Aggregation – First Make
Wearables People Want
to Wear
Vivametrica’s Christy Lane, M.D., and
Misfit’s Kalmar agree that while consumer
fitness wearables are of limited value in a
clinical setting right now, wearables makers
are now working with partners to make
devices that yield data that might be useful
to doctors and researchers.
Lane said her company, which makes an
open integration platform for wearable
devices, is hoping to bring in biometrics
data from wearables and establish risk
thresholds for certain types of behaviors.

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Vivametrica’s Use of IoT in Healthcare
Dr. Christy Lane, cofounder and COO,
Vivametrica, talks about how the IoT
influences what her company does, how
data gathered helps healthcare decisions,
and what market opportunities this data
provides.
ONC Ready to Take Next Step Toward
Interoperability, But Contradictions Remain –
Healthcare Accelerators Moving Toward
Specialization
As the federal government announces
another step toward wiring the country’s
health care system this week, centripetal
forces are threatening to disrupt the whole
federal health IT program. The Office of the
National Coordinator for Health IT on
Wednesday is announcing a draft roadmap
for interoperability — the free and secure
flow of healthcare information — by 2024.
The Spinal Stenosis Pedometer and Nutrition
Lifestyle Intervention (SSPANLI):
Development and Pilot
The SSPANLI intervention was shown to be
feasible, atSpinal Stenosistractive to
participants, and effective in this small
sample. This intervention provides people
with LSS the opportunity to participate in
their own health management, potentially
improving access to care. Efficacy is
currently being assessed in a randomized
trial.
SensorUp, Vivametrica Partner to
Standardize Wearable Device Data for
Healthcare Environments
The exponential growth in the number of
people tracking their health through activity
monitors and biosensor devices is driving the
need for industry standards. To ensure the
validity of this personal data, Vivametrica
and SensorUp today announced an
exclusive partnership to collect, standardize
and integrate data from wearable devices
for application in healthcare environments.
This partnership standardizes and calibrates
the data that will integrate into
Vivametrica's analytics platform, resulting in
exceptional data management and
accurate assessments for consumers,
enterprises and healthcare organizations.
What do Wearable Technology and
Sherlock Holmes Have in Common?
Understanding what you are seeing and
what you are not seeing is the first step in
gaining a deeper knowledge of the
individual. Certainly, the next steps in
engaged health are coming, and it is our
collective responsibility to guide these
developments in ways that prove beneficial
and valuable to the individual.
When it comes to crime-solving techniques
and the world of wearable technology in
health, I believe that the Sherlocks
portrayed by Robert Downey, Jr. and
Benedict Cumberbatch would both agree
that many pieces of information critical to
health are related but often dismissed.

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What Changes in the Wearables Market
Mean for Healthcare IT Solutions Providers
As ABI points out, one of the key areas of
the emerging opportunities is data
collection, specifically the ability to harvest
data from multiple vendor devices and
then share it accurately with patients,
providers, and payers. In the last six months,
Apple, Google, and Samsung have all
announced their plans to provide RPM
devices.
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Stanford Launches mHealth Research Center
Stanford (Calif.) University has launched the
Stanford Center for Medical Mobile
Technology, a new research center
dedicated to new ways to bring wearables
and other mobile devices into healthcare.
The research conducted at the new center
is “necessary to harness the full potential of
mobile technologies in the healthcare
arena,” said Matthew Smuck, MD, founder
and director of the Stanford Center for
Medical Mobile Technology. “While
biometric information is increasingly
available in the commercial sector, it
commonly lacks the scientific validity
necessary to make the transition to
healthcare applications. By applying
rigorous medical research methodology
and advanced statistics to the analysis of
mobile technology data, we aim to create
new insights into human diseases and
develop novel tools for disease detection
and prevention.”
New Stanford University Research Center
Aims to Use Mobile Health Data to Improve
Treatment Plans
Stanford University has established a new
research center to focus on leveraging
measurable and meaningful data from
mobile health devices to improve
treatments for chronic conditions. The
Stanford Center for Medical Mobile
Technology is headed by Matthew Smuck
and Christy Lane, co-founders of a
Canadian-based company called
Vivametrica that is developing an analytics
platform for wearable devices.
Microsoft Readying Smart Watch; Stanford
Gives mHealth Research its Own Center
Mobile technology research is getting big
attention at the Stanford School of
Medicine with the opening of a new center
to be run by Matthew Smuck, co-founder of
Vivametrica, a commercial firm specializing
in wearable tech's healthcare applications,
according to a Mobile ID World article. The
new branch will be for the integration of
mobile technology into healthcare.
Data from wearable devices could soon
land you in jail
Muller's client voluntarily shared a weeks
worth of Fitbit data with Vivametrica so it
could be compared with data from other
Fitbit users. His client, a former personal
trainer, had been in an accident that
affected her ability to work; the data was
used to back up her claim.