Category: smart ring

NBA restart plan includes using Oura rings to catch COVID-19 symptoms

Post author By Randall
Post date June 16, 2020
Categories In coronavirus, covid-19, disney world, gear, Nba, News, oura, oura smart ring, smart ring, Sports, Tech, Wearables

[ad_1] While the NBA continues to move toward restarting its season with players and other personnel isolated at Walt Disney World in Orlando, details of how it hopes to manage the people on site are leaking out. According to Shams Charania of The Athletic, the specifics were laid out in an informational memo dubbed “Life […]

Researchers use Oura smart rings to predict onset of COVID-19 symptoms

Post author By Randall
Post date April 10, 2020
Categories In Ai, coronavirus, covid-19, gear, healthcare, medicine, News, oura, rockefeller neuroscience institute, smart ring, Tech, tomorrow, Wearables, west virginia university, wvu

[ad_1] Smart ring maker Oura has teamed up with West Virginia University’s Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute to try to predict the spread of COVID-19 in healthcare providers. By combining the wearables with an AI prediction model, the researchers can currently predict symptoms like fever, cough and fatigue 24 hours before their onset. The team — which […]

ER docs don smart rings to better predict COVID-19 infections

Post author By Randall
Post date March 23, 2020
Categories In algorithm, coronavirus, covid-19, data, emergency, gear, healthcare, hospital, medicine, oura, Privacy, san francisco, smart ring, symptoms, Tech, temperature, ucsf, vital signs, Wearables, workers

[ad_1] Workers at UCSF Medical Center and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital are wearing the devices, and Oura has asked another 150,000 users to share their data. The rings aren’t exactly comprehensive trackers, but they do record body temperature, heart rate and other vitals. In the near term, they could alert medical workers if they […]