Wearables and smartwatches can track your pulse – but if you’re using them to scan for irregular heart rhythms, there are some things you should know.
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Research is revealing that fitness trackers alone can be helpful facilitators toward changing a sedentary lifestyle but don’t motivate people to increase their physical activity.
About one in five Aussies currently own a wearable fitness tracker of some kind. Yet many people doubt their effectiveness. Let’s see what the research suggests.
Connecting health apps to health care can enable better care for patients with chronic diseases, and it has the potential to lower skyrocketing US health spending.
Even half the amount of steps shows health benefits.
From step counters and active video games to apps for exercisers and tech-enabled gear, there are a lot of ways to combine your workouts with your digital life.
A health law expert explains what the regulation does and doesn’t protect.
Fitness information like resting heart rate collected by wearable devices can’t diagnose diseases, but it can signal when something is wrong. That can be enough to prompt a COVID-19 test.
The watchdog has voiced concerns over the proposed US$2.1 billion merger, from which both users and Australian health services could lose out.
Researchers have increasingly turned to DNA sequencing to help identify and track diseases like Ebola.
Insurer John Hancock now requires customers to use activity trackers for life insurance policies. Here’s how that will put life insurance and even mortgages out of reach for many people.
Heart-rate monitors can be accurate – as long as you don’t move.
Fitbits and other trackers are just the latest iteration of the fitness industry’s relationship with technology.
Research shows that people’s social networks, employment conditions and life stages all impact their use of wearable devices. Understanding these factors can help you achieve your fitness goals.
If you sit all day at work, then cancer, diabetes, heart disease and death are the likely outcomes. A cardiologist explains how the simple act of counting can reverse this evolutionary trend.
Soon, wearable fitness devices will be able to diagnose diseases. Could that lead insurers to deny coverage to people based on their data alone?
Forget high-end design and cutting-edge communication. The new Watch is a fitness device and heralds a shift for the company – from enabling self-expression to nudging users toward self-mastery.
If we can solve the privacy issues, placing trackers on people and the things we make can teach us a great deal about ourselves and the world around us.
Wearable technology could help us manage our own health but separate us from our doctors as they drown in data.
Tracking sleep is now routine in monitoring overall well-being. But are the devices used to do this actually useful, or have we simply found a more sophisticated way to clock watch?
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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SHARP Professor, leader of the Vitalities Lab, Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Centre, UNSW Sydney, and leader of the UNSW Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, UNSW Sydney
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Paediatric Sleep, Monash University
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Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology
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Lecturer, Digital and Social Media, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Media & Communication, Muhlenberg College
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Senior Lecturer in Design Interactions, Lancaster University
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Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, George Washington University
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PhD Candidate, Loughborough University
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Associate Professor, Sport Management, Brock University
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Professor of Distributed Systems & Chair in Applied Data Sciences, Queensland University of Technology
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Lecturer in Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen
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Professor, Medical Research Future Fund Emerging Leader, University of South Australia
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Reader in Exercise and Health Physiology, University of Hertfordshire
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Assistant Professor, Biomedical and Health Information Sciences, University of Illinois Chicago
