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Two seniors relax on a track with Apple smart devices

Apple-backed Stanford study suggests iPhone, Apple Watch could remotely monitor heart patients' frailty

By Dave Muoio 02:57 pm March 25, 2021

iPhones and Apple Watches could enable at-home assessment of cardiovascular disease patients' frailty via sensor data and an app-guided version of the six-minute walk test (6MWT), a traditionally clinic-based assessment of a person's functional capacity, according to data published yesterday in PLoS One. Conducted by Stanford University researchers and funded by Apple, the study provided 110...

Study: iPhone’s step tracker is solid, but don’t rely on its distance measurement features

By Dave Muoio 01:43 pm December 12, 2018

A Stanford study recently published in npj Digital Medicine suggests that the iPhone’s step measurement capabilities are sufficient enough to monitor and measure patients’ activity remotely. However, the device’s built-in walking distance measurement algorithm is inconsistent, and should not be used when gauging a patients’ activity or building a patient monitoring app for conditions such as...