Task Force Examines Role of Mobile Health Technology in COVID-19 Pandemic

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UMass Amherst experts focus on potential benefits of wearable sensors

AMHERST, Mass. – An international task force, including two University of Massachusetts Amherst computer scientists, concludes in new research that mobile health (mHealth) technologies are a viable option to monitor COVID-19 patients at home and predict which ones will need medical intervention.

The technologies – including wearable sensors, electronic patient-reported data and digital contact tracing – also could be used to monitor and predict coronavirus exposure in people presumed to be free of infection, providing information that could help prioritize diagnostic testing. […]

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