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Establishing a Global Standard for Wearable Devices in Sport and Exercise Medicine: Perspectives From Academic and Industry Stakeholders Publisher Pubmed



Ash GI1, 2 ; Stultskolehmainen M3, 4 ; Busa MA5, 6 ; Gaffey AE1, 7 ; Angeloudis K8 ; Munizpardos B9 ; Gregory R10 ; Huggins RA11 ; Redeker NS12 ; Weinzimer SA13 ; Grieco LA14 ; Lyden K15 ; Megally E16 ; Vogiatzis I17, 18 Show All Authors
Authors
  1. Ash GI1, 2
  2. Stultskolehmainen M3, 4
  3. Busa MA5, 6
  4. Gaffey AE1, 7
  5. Angeloudis K8
  6. Munizpardos B9
  7. Gregory R10
  8. Huggins RA11
  9. Redeker NS12
  10. Weinzimer SA13
  11. Grieco LA14
  12. Lyden K15
  13. Megally E16
  14. Vogiatzis I17, 18
  15. Scher LA19, 20
  16. Zhu X21
  17. Baker JS22, 23, 24
  18. Brandt C1, 2, 25
  19. Businelle MS26, 27
  20. Fucito LM28, 29, 30
  21. Griggs S31
  22. Jarrin R32, 33
  23. Mortazavi BJ34
  24. Prioleau T35
  25. Roberts W28
  26. Spanakis EK36, 37
  27. Nally LM13
  28. Debruyne A38, 39
  29. Bachl N38, 39, 40, 41
  30. Pigozzi F38, 39, 42, 43
  31. Halabchi F38, 44, 45
  32. Ramagole DA38, 46
  33. Janse Van Rensburg DC38, 46
  34. Wolfarth B38, 47
  35. Fossati C42
  36. Rozenstoka S38, 39, 48
  37. Tanisawa K49
  38. Borjesson M38, 50, 51
  39. Casajus JA9, 38
  40. Gonzalezaguero A9, 38
  41. Zelenkova I9, 52
  42. Swart J38, 53
  43. Gursoy G54
  44. Meyerson W55, 56
  45. Liu J54
  46. Greenbaum D54, 57, 58
  47. Pitsiladis YP8, 38, 39
  48. Gerstein MB54, 56, 59, 60
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Authors Affiliations
  1. 1. Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, CT, United States
  2. 2. Center for Medical Informatics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
  3. 3. Digestive Health Multispecialty Clinic, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, United States
  4. 4. Department of Biobehavioral Sciences, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
  5. 5. Center for Human Health and Performance, Institute for Applied Life Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States
  6. 6. Department of Kinesiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, United States
  7. 7. Department of Internal Medicine (Cardiovascular Medicine), Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States
  8. 8. Centre for Stress and Age-related Disease, University of Brighton, Brighton, United Kingdom
  9. 9. GENUD Research Group, Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
  10. 10. Department of Health and Movement Sciences, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT, United States
  11. 11. Department of Kinesiology, Korey Stringer Institute, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States
  12. 12. Yale School of Nursing, Orange, CT, United States
  13. 13. Department of Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States
  14. 14. Google Health, Palo Alto, CA, United States
  15. 15. VivoSense, Denver, CO, United States
  16. 16. Xsensio, Lausanne, Switzerland
  17. 17. Department of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation, School Health and Life Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
  18. 18. European Respiratory Society (ERS), Digital Health Working Group, Lausanne, Switzerland
  19. 19. Consumer Technology Association Working Groups for Health Technology Standards, Washington, DC, United States
  20. 20. Fitscript LLC, New Haven, CT, United States
  21. 21. Center for Biomedical Data Science, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States
  22. 22. Faculty of Sports Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China
  23. 23. School of Health and Life Sciences, Institute for Clinical Exercise and Health Science, University of the West of Scotland, South Lanarkshire, United Kingdom
  24. 24. Department of Sport, Physical Education and Health, Centre for Health and Exercise Science Research, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
  25. 25. Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States
  26. 26. Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, United States
  27. 27. Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust Health Promotion Research Center, Stephenson Cancer Center, Oklahoma City, OK, United States
  28. 28. Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States
  29. 29. Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, CT, United States
  30. 30. Smilow Cancer Hospital, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, United States
  31. 31. Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States
  32. 32. Department of Emergency Medicine, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States
  33. 33. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States
  34. 34. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States
  35. 35. Department of Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States
  36. 36. University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States
  37. 37. Division of Endocrinology, Baltimore Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Maryland, United States
  38. 38. International Federation of Sports Medicine (FIMS), Lausanne, Switzerland
  39. 39. European Federation of Sports Medicine Associations (EFSMA), Lausanne, Switzerland
  40. 40. Institute of Sports Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
  41. 41. Austrian Institute of Sports Medicine, Vienna, Austria
  42. 42. Department of Movement, Human and Health Sciences, University of Rome “Foro Italico�, Rome, Italy
  43. 43. Villa Stuart Sport Clinic, FIFA Medical Center of Excellence, Rome, Italy
  44. 44. Sports Medicine Research Center, Neuroscience Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  45. 45. Department of Sports and Exercise Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  46. 46. Section Sports Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
  47. 47. Department of Sports Medicine, Humboldt University and Charite University School of Medicine, Berlin, Germany
  48. 48. FIMS Collaboration Centre of Sports Medicine, Sports Laboratory, Riga, Latvia
  49. 49. Faculty of Sport Sciences, Waseda University, Tokorozawa, Japan
  50. 50. Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Center for Health and Performance, Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden
  51. 51. Department of MGA, Region of Western Sweden, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
  52. 52. I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University, Ministry of Health of Russia, Moscow, Russian Federation
  53. 53. Division of Physiological Sciences and HPALS Research Centre, FIMS Collaboration Centre of Sports Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
  54. 54. Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
  55. 55. Duke Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke Medicine, Durham, NC, United States
  56. 56. Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
  57. 57. Zvi Meitar Institute for Legal Implications of Emerging Technologies, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Herzliya, Israel
  58. 58. Harry Radyzner Law School, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Herzliya, Israel
  59. 59. Department of Computer Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
  60. 60. Department of Statistics and Data Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States

Source: Sports Medicine Published:2021


Abstract

Millions of consumer sport and fitness wearables (CSFWs) are used worldwide, and millions of datapoints are generated by each device. Moreover, these numbers are rapidly growing, and they contain a heterogeneity of devices, data types, and contexts for data collection. Companies and consumers would benefit from guiding standards on device quality and data formats. To address this growing need, we convened a virtual panel of industry and academic stakeholders, and this manuscript summarizes the outcomes of the discussion. Our objectives were to identify (1) key facilitators of and barriers to participation by CSFW manufacturers in guiding standards and (2) stakeholder priorities. The venues were the Yale Center for Biomedical Data Science Digital Health Monthly Seminar Series (62 participants) and the New England Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine Annual Meeting (59 participants). In the discussion, stakeholders outlined both facilitators of (e.g., commercial return on investment in device quality, lucrative research partnerships, and transparent and multilevel evaluation of device quality) and barriers (e.g., competitive advantage conflict, lack of flexibility in previously developed devices) to participation in guiding standards. There was general agreement to adopt Keadle et al.’s standard pathway for testing devices (i.e., benchtop, laboratory, field-based, implementation) without consensus on the prioritization of these steps. Overall, there was enthusiasm not to add prescriptive or regulatory steps, but instead create a networking hub that connects companies to consumers and researchers for flexible guidance navigating the heterogeneity, multi-tiered development, dynamicity, and nebulousness of the CSFW field. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.