Evidation Health
The company will use the investment to expand its product specialist and client engagement teams.
OMERS Growth Equity and Kaiser Permanente Group Trust led the round, with participation from McKesson Ventures and B Capital Group.
Digital health and data experts illustrate the risk of sharing anonymized fitness data and call for systematic reform.
The study was conducted by Omada and Evidation Health and included 195 participants.
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The research effort is a collaboration with nonprofit 4YouandMe, and will collect self-reported symptoms and wearables data from 300 high-risk participants.
Early data from the roughly 100,000-participant effort suggest infrequent social distancing and regional behavior disparities (as of March 15).
The study will use the smartphones, Apple Watches and a custom health engagement program to influence stroke risk and atrial fibrillation detection.
These data provide a proof of concept that Apple products and other consumer devices can play a role in monitoring or identifying disease symptoms.
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