Insights from wearable respiratory sensors and AI
Hot topicsChairs: R. Costello (Dublin 9, Ireland), H. Pinnock (Edinburgh (Edinburgh), United Kingdom)
Aims: To present opportunities opened by wearable monitoring of ambulant and (semi-)continuous monitoring, leading to large data streams; to understand these rapidly expanded fields over recent years; to highlight the opportunities and show promising results, e.g. in the fields of sleep apnea and rehabilitation; to emphasize challenges with respect to reliability and interpretability of the results in clinical practice; to describe the current developments around wearable devices and AI and to discuss the opportunities and open challenges; to facilitate exchange and dialogue around these developments in the domain of digital health. To understand how the COVID-19 epidemic is developing, who is at most risk, what is the effect of social distancing, and when and where providers can expect people to require healthcare services.