Are currently available wearable devices for activity tracking and heart rate monitoring accurate, precise, and medically beneficial?

Healthcare Informatics Research

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 315-320

  El Amrawy, Fatema ^a   Nounou, Mohamed Ismail ^a,b  

^a ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b Appalachian College of Pharmacy   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Fitness trackers; Heart rate; Precision; Step counting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946735688     PISSN: 20933681     EISSN: 2093369X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4258/hir.2015.21.4.315     Document Type: Article

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