Heart rate variability

Edge Impulse Debuts Smallest, Most Precise HRV Algorithm, Alongside Other Health-Focused Tools

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Monday, October 9, 2023

With the HR and HRV blocks, enterprises and developers can better tackle challenges involving activity and sleep tracking, fall detection, sleep monitoring, and atrial fibrillation.

Key Points: 
  • With the HR and HRV blocks, enterprises and developers can better tackle challenges involving activity and sleep tracking, fall detection, sleep monitoring, and atrial fibrillation.
  • “Our new algorithm generates clean HR and HRV values from a PPG sensor via our augmentation of standard processing techniques.
  • Health companies using Edge Impulse’s medical-grade tools for edge AI include:
    Know Labs - An emerging developer of non-invasive medical diagnostics technology bringing the first FDA-approved, non-invasive blood glucose monitoring solution to market.
  • Edge Impulse helps SlateSafety aggregate and process sensor data on-device, protecting workers wherever they’re needed regardless of connectivity or signal strength.

iMediSync Leads Global Remote Healthcare Market With Its AI-Based Brain Scanning Device iSyncWave

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Friday, May 13, 2022

Aligned with this, iSyncWave , an innovative AI-based brain-scanning device, gained global media attention during the event.

Key Points: 
  • Aligned with this, iSyncWave , an innovative AI-based brain-scanning device, gained global media attention during the event.
  • iSyncWave is the worlds first integrated wireless EEG measurement and Neurotherapy convergence solution and is a remote-care mental health platform device.
  • The device is a 100 percent dry-type headset equipped with the age/gender matching normative database with 1,300+ healthy brainwaves covering almost all ages.
  • Also, the device is equipped with PBM (Photobiomodulation) LED therapy to suppress brain cells from dying, which provides personalized therapy protocols that target neuro-related diseases.

MindMics Announces Successful Clinical Studies with Scripps Health

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Tuesday, December 14, 2021

MindMics , the actionable health monitoring company, today, announced the results of two ground-breaking studies reported by Scripps Health at the American Heart Association .

Key Points: 
  • MindMics , the actionable health monitoring company, today, announced the results of two ground-breaking studies reported by Scripps Health at the American Heart Association .
  • We demonstrated high correlation between bio-signals from MindMics earbuds, echocardiography, and cardiac catheterizations, specifically in capturing cardiovascular performance measures, said Sanjeev Bhavnani, M.D., Principal Investigator of Scripps Health study.
  • Scripps Health is a nonprofit integrated health care delivery system based in San Diego, California.
  • Scripps has been ranked five times as one of the nations best health care systems by Truven Health Analytics.

MDoloris Medical Systems Announces the Regulatory Clearance and the Upcoming Launch of its Analgesia Nociception Index Platform in Japan with Heiwa Bussan

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Thursday, November 25, 2021

MDoloris Medical Systems, a leader in the field of objective pain monitoring during anesthesia, announces today the regulatory clearance and marketing approval of its HFVI MOC-9, High Frequency Variability Index monitor, in Japan.

Key Points: 
  • MDoloris Medical Systems, a leader in the field of objective pain monitoring during anesthesia, announces today the regulatory clearance and marketing approval of its HFVI MOC-9, High Frequency Variability Index monitor, in Japan.
  • MDoloris HFVI MOC-9 Technology is the first monitoring solution for patients going through analgosedation and anesthesia in Japan.
  • Heiwa Bussan has just become the only Japanese company being able to answer this need in the real world.
  • MDoloris Medical Systems, a venture-backed French company, is the first worldwide company to provide clinicians continuous and non-invasive surgical stress monitoring devices.

Mental Stress: Can Your Snack Make a Difference?

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Tuesday, August 4, 2020

say "red" in a green font) to simulate a short period of mental stress.

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  • say "red" in a green font) to simulate a short period of mental stress.
  • During acute mental stress, participants in the almond group showed greater cardiac resilience.
  • Participants had their heart rate (HR) and heart rate variability (HRV) measured in 5-minute periods at resting and during mental stress.
  • Snacking on whole almonds for six weeks increases heart rate variability during mental stress in healthy adults: a randomized controlled trial.

Can the way we breathe affect how we feel and perform? The Biofeedback Federation of Europe to Host Webinar with Peak Performance Expert Dr. Leah Lagos

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Monday, July 13, 2020

According to Dr. Lagos, "Stress is not in your head, it's in your body."

Key Points: 
  • According to Dr. Lagos, "Stress is not in your head, it's in your body."
  • Dr. Lagos addresses those symptoms first by modifying the way we breathe.
  • The science behind the 10-week program outlined in her book is the link between heart rate variability (HRV) and resilience.
  • On July 29, 2020, the Biofeedback Federation of Europe will host a free webinar with Dr. Leah Lagos who will discuss her book and the methods she uses to rewire the body's response to stress.

WHOOP Leverages Respiratory Rate Technology to Predict COVID-19

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Monday, June 22, 2020

BOSTON, June 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- WHOOP , the human performance company, has leveraged its respiratory rate technology to predict COVID-19 in a new study conducted in collaboration with scientists from CQUniversity in Australia (CQUniversity).

Key Points: 
  • BOSTON, June 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- WHOOP , the human performance company, has leveraged its respiratory rate technology to predict COVID-19 in a new study conducted in collaboration with scientists from CQUniversity in Australia (CQUniversity).
  • The novel algorithm was trained by looking at intraindividual changes in nighttime respiratory rate in multiple datasets within that population.
  • WHOOP is a 24/7 waterproof fitness tracker that can be worn around the wrist, forearm, or bicep, and tracks key metrics like heart rate variability, resting heart rate, respiratory rate, and sleep staging with industry-leading accuracy.
  • This new research suggests that the ability of WHOOP to measure respiratory rate and the platform's unique technology can have implications far beyond personal fitness and well-being.

Clinical Wearable Biostrap Launches COVID-19 Study

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Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Additionally, Biostrap is also donating up to 100 devices to track COVID-19 patients for the purpose of better understanding the progression of the virus.

Key Points: 
  • Additionally, Biostrap is also donating up to 100 devices to track COVID-19 patients for the purpose of better understanding the progression of the virus.
  • Being the most advanced, science-based platform, Biostrap is on a mission to improve global health.
  • "The raw PPG waveform provides tremendous clinical value," says Dr. Marrouche, adding that "we can apply analysis of PPG to predict severe clinical outcomes like strokes, heart failure or hospitalizations.
  • Biostrap measures heart rate variability, heart rate, respiratory rate, blood oxygen saturation, sleep stages and more than 100 activities and exercises.

New Study Validates Stress Recovery Improvement Through Salivary Alpha-Amylase (sAA) Reduction with Happify’s Breather Activity

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Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Happifys Breather activity trains users through gamified biofeedback to adjust and regulate their heart rate variability (HRV), calming the bodys nervous system.

Key Points: 
  • Happifys Breather activity trains users through gamified biofeedback to adjust and regulate their heart rate variability (HRV), calming the bodys nervous system.
  • Compared with participants in the other conditions, users of Happifys Breather activity recovered 10% more effectively from stress.
  • The efficacy of the gamified Breather component of the Happify mobile health app was examined in a randomized study setting.
  • Stress recovery was assessed via repeated measures of Salivary Alpha-Amylase, cortisol, and self-reported acute stress (on a 1-100 scale).

VivaLNK's Wearable ECG Patch Used in Study of Autonomic Function in Predicting Heart Disease

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Wednesday, August 28, 2019

The study builds upon previous work by Emory researchers titled Circadian Autonomic Inflexibility: A Marker of Ischemic Heart Disease , which associates lower heart rate variability (HRV) with subclinical myocardial ischemia.

Key Points: 
  • The study builds upon previous work by Emory researchers titled Circadian Autonomic Inflexibility: A Marker of Ischemic Heart Disease , which associates lower heart rate variability (HRV) with subclinical myocardial ischemia.
  • The VivaLNK medical wearable ECG patch contains an electrocardiography sensor and accelerometer to capture and generate multiple physiological data including ECG trace, heart rate, RR-interval, and 3-axis motion.
  • "In addition, the software development kit makes it easy to use the patch for research and product development purposes."
  • As part of the study, the device will be used to remotely monitor patients who are undergoing coronary angiography, in order to measure autonomic function.