Visible launches activity-tracking platform to tackle long COVID
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November 22 2022Description
"In its initial guise, Visible is available as a free mobile app, with plans to introduce a premium subscription in the U.S. and U.K. in the coming months. This will include a Polar Verity Sense heart-rate monitor (HRM), designed to be worn on the upper arm to capture the necessary data passively throughout the day.
For now, though, Visible works entirely through manual data inputs via morning and evening check-ins. This includes measuring heart-rate variability (HRV) — the time in between each heartbeat — which can be an indicator of a person’s health and well-being. So how can Visible track this when it’s not actively supporting a heart-rate monitor yet? Well smartphone cameras can help via a technique called photoplethysmography (PPG), which has been shown to be a somewhat effective alternative to ECG in terms of analyzing HRV in humans."Source
https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/22/visible-launches-activity-tracking-platform-to-tackle-long-covid/
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December 13 2022Last edited
December 14 2022