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  • Digital health
  • Wearable technology
  • Biomedical engineering

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  • Wearable physiological monitoring offers promise for remote health tracking.
  • Widespread adoption necessitates automated data platforms for collection, processing, and analysis.
  • Focus on viral respiratory infections like influenza and COVID-19.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore prospective health monitoring using an automated pipeline.
  • To extract health metrics and analyze anomalies in free-living conditions.
  • To assess the system's effectiveness over several months for viral respiratory infections.

Main Methods:

  • 59 participants provided daily smartwatch data and health reports over 8 months.
  • Garmin Fenix 6 smartwatches collected high-resolution interbeat interval (IBI) and step count data.
  • Cloud-based engine computed health risk scores based on deviations from individual baselines.

Main Results:

  • 70% smartwatch wear compliance and 46% health reporting compliance observed.
  • 29 elevated health risk scores detected; 12 (41%) correlated with reported symptoms.
  • 6 out of 9 reported illnesses with smartwatch data showed increased health risk scores.

Conclusions:

  • A protocol for near real-time health assessment using wearable sensors was demonstrated.
  • The modular platform supports various sensors and algorithms for continuous monitoring.
  • This study shows the feasibility of using smartwatches for long-term respiratory illness detection.