The Open Wearables Initiative expands founding team; begins soliciting algorithms and datasets for wearable and connected health technologies

(Rana Healthcare Solutions LLC) OWEAR is a collaboration designed to promote the effective use of high-quality, sensor-generated measures of health in clinical research through the open sharing and benchmarking of algorithms and datasets at www.owear.org. OWEAR Founders Shimmer, GGIR software and algorithms author Dr. Vincent van Hees, and Nextbridge Health are now joined by non-profits Sage Bionetworks and DiMe. The OWEAR Working Group also includes executives from four global pharmaceutical companies and a major clinical research organization.

Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - February 13, 2020 Category: Biology Source Type: news