Fitbit Heart Study

Fitbit may reduce your risk of stroke and heart failure: The Fitbit Heart Study Fitbit, a wearable device What is Fitbit Fitbit is one of the several companies (Apple, Samsung, etc.,) that sell smartwatches that could track heart rate, daily steps, workout time, etc., among several other uses. Although smartwatch is the main product of Fitbit, other products including trackers (that also look…

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Can AI fix the 50Billion$ clinical trial market?

The power of AI in clinical trials: the COVID scenario “It saved us an entire month,” says Demetris Zambas, Vice President and Head of Data Monitoring and Management at Pfizer. “It really has had a significant impact on the first-pass quality of our clinical data and the speed through which we can move things along and make decisions.” This was just for one…

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AI to study heart function using echo

Introduction Ultrasound diagnostics called echocardiography is used to evaluate the anatomy and functionality of the human heart. An initial screening for systolic and diastolic heart failure can be performed following an echocardiography test. This test is also important to differentiate between systolic and diastolic dysfunction without echocardiography cardiac imaging. Therefore, manual echocardiography interpretation can be time-consuming and prone to inaccuracy. The following article…

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