Garmin enters research collaboration with King’s College London

Garmin (GRMN) announced a major collaboration with King’s College London during the Garmin Health Summit at the New York Stock Exchange. The agreement identifies Garmin as the exclusive smartwatch provider for the Enhanced Maternal and Baby Results with AI-supported Care and Empowerment program of research, which will collect smartwatch and fitness tracker data from up to 40,000 adult participants – comprised of women and their partners – worldwide. To enable personalized and continuous monitoring, each EMBRACE adult participant will be equipped with a Garmin smartwatch or fitness tracker capable of recording key physiological metrics like heart rate, heart rate variability, sleep patterns, physical activity, energy expenditure, Body Battery and beat-to-beat intervals. With user consent, data collected through Garmin smartwatches will be utilized by AI in a program of clinical studies to help address health conditions like gestational diabetes, pregnancy hypertension and perinatal depression, as well as provide ongoing post-natal care recommendations. Using data from Garmin devices, smartphones and self-reporting, an AI-based prediction algorithm will be developed. And with machine learning, it is hoped that the model will identify key digital biomarkers to support personalized interventions and improve health outcomes for mother, her partner and the baby – the ultimate goal of the EMBRACE.