Wearable diabetes tech targets more than glucose
There’s more to wearable, noninvasive diabetes technology than glucose-monitoring. One of the new frontiers is diagnostics.
Earlier this year, researchers from the University of California at San Francisco and the digital startup Cardiogram reported that they were able to use data from digital heart rate sensors (like those found in Apple Watches, Fitbits and other devices) to correctly detect diabetes in patients.
In a study presented at the 2018 meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, the researchers said they detected diabetes in 85% of 462 participants (out of a pool of 14,011) who’d previously been diagnosed with the condition (AAAAI abstract arXiv:1802.02511v1 [cs.LG]).
Brandon Ballinger
The next step is to test whether the data analysis can detect undiagnosed diabetes, Mr. Ballinger said.