Publication/Creation Date

November 22 2022

Creators/Contributors

Paul Sawers (creator)
Visible Health Inc. (contributor)
Harry Leeming (contributor)
Luke Martin-Fuller (contributor)
Imperial College London (contributor)
David Putrino (contributor)
Mount Sinai Hospital (contributor)
David Strain (contributor)
Action For M.E. (contributor)

Description

"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."

Related Body Part

Arm, Hand

Augments

Managing, Resting, Pacing, Recovering

Technology Keywords

Mobile Applications, Smartphones, Photoplethysmography Sensors, Heart Rate (HR) Monitors, Cameras, Accelerometers , Gyroscopes, Biometrics , Activity Trackers

Keywords

COVID-19, Pandemic, Long Covid, Post-Viral Illnesses, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), Fatigue, Health, Medical, Heart Rate Variability (HRV), Research

Marketing Keywords

Visible, Polar , Polar Verity Sense

Source

https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/22/visible-launches-activity-tracking-platform-to-tackle-long-covid/