The Digital Physiome: Wearables and Continuous Biometrics
Digital medicine researchers explore continuous biometric monitoring via consumer wearables, examining edge data processing and privacy risks.
Summary
The Evolution of Continuous Biometric Monitoring
Scalable wearable sensors and edge computing now enable continuous physiological monitoring, providing unprecedented clinical insights into acute and chronic medical conditions.
Constructing the Digital Physiome
Jennifer Goldsack and Jessilyn Dunn explain how multi-sensor data streams (heart rate variability, skin temperature, pulse oximetry) are aggregated to detect early infection signatures.
Data Integrity, Security, and Patient Privacy Risks
Streaming sensitive biometric data to commercial cloud platforms creates severe privacy risks, data ownership questions, and vulnerability to adversarial telemetry manipulation.
Establishing Standards for Digital Health Technologies
The authors advocate for open verification standards and secure edge-processing frameworks to validate clinical wearable data securely.
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