The use of monitoring devices such as actometers to measure outcomes in clinical trials. Discussion thread

[ladycatlover]

participants will be asked to record exercise using either charts or the iPhone app ActiveME.

Pah! Yet another variable! Also discriminates against those poor plebs (like me ) who don't have expensive iPhones but have to rely on Android. I would think that it's much easier to use an ap to record stuff than faff around with charts.

 

[ladycatlover]

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/activeme/id458308805?mt=8

From the above link:

Developed by NHS experts in CFS/ME

 

[Arnie Pye]

Yep, @Arnie Pye - John Hancock - a large US insurer. It was listed under the news items yesterday under the BBC red button.

I found the BBC article : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-45590293

It's a bit later than planned but 1984 is probably 95% here already.

Edit : Thanks for the heads up on this, IW.

 

[chrisb]

"But it said the data it had collected so far suggested that Vitality policyholders lived between 13 and 21 years longer than the rest of the insured population."

One wonders whether that is a subjective measurement.

Sorry, that's an old joke.