[News] Embrace

[petero]

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/892329?src=soc_fb_180210_mscpedt_news_mdscp_smartwatch&faf=1

"The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared for marketing the Embrace smart watch (Empatica Inc) for seizure tracking and epilepsy management."

WILD - I started using one of these maybe a year ago. I just saw this Tweet today though and made me wonder if I'd actually been a tester for the product, while it being unknown to me.?.?. A blind taste test or whatever it's called?
I'm still waiting to get a text back from family for info, who got it for me...

...but here's the tweet too (if I can figure out how to CC: tweets onto this app...

https://twitter.com/eftx/status/961000623272587264




Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[Bernard]

* bump *

After developing a wearable device that can automatically detect seizures in people with epilepsy and immediately notify their caregivers, Empatica is planning to take the technology even further.

The Embrace wrist-worn device currently uses an artificial intelligence algorithm to spot the earliest signs of a convulsive seizure—and was proven in a study ahead of its 2018 FDA clearance to catch 100% of the 135 participants’ seizures. Its Boston-based maker now wants to expand its wearables’ AI technology to be able to detect oncoming seizures before they’ve even begun.
....

More:

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/medtech/empatica-plots-wearable-based-study-develop-seizure-prediction-algorithm