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Smartwatch biomarkers and the path to clinical use
Rosalind W Picard1, Edward W Boyer2
1MIT and Empatica, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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Wearables have advanced from collecting consumer-quality fitness data to collecting continuous clinical-quality physiology that, when processed carefully, can identify medically significant events. In a recent issue of Nature Medicine, Dunn et al.1 described how vital signs from wearables predict clinical laboratory blood- and urine-based measurements better than vital signs measured in the clinic.
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