OpenHealth: Open Source Platform for Wearable Health Monitoring
This work addresses the problem of enabling autonomous collection of clinically relevant data for movement disorder patients, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing wearable technology without claiming major breakthroughs.
The authors tackled the adaptation and technical challenges hindering widespread adoption of wearable health monitoring for movement disorders by introducing OpenHealth, an open source platform that includes a wearable device, standard software interfaces, and reference implementations for activity and gesture recognition.
Movement disorders are becoming one of the leading causes of functional disability due to aging populations and extended life expectancy. Wearable health monitoring is emerging as an effective way to augment clinical care for movement disorders. However, wearable devices face a number of adaptation and technical challenges that hinder their widespread adoption. To address these challenges, we introduce OpenHealth, an open source platform for wearable health monitoring. OpenHealth aims to design a standard set of hardware/software and wearable devices that can enable autonomous collection of clinically relevant data. The OpenHealth platform includes a wearable device, standard software interfaces and reference implementations of human activity and gesture recognition applications.