Ultrahuman Pulsomics Invites Smart Ring Owners To Sleep Study
Wearables company Ultrahuman has launched 'Pulsomics,' a research platform that allows smart ring users to contribute their health data to scientific studies. The platform aims to collect longitudinal data on sleep, glucose metabolism, and VO2 Max while maintaining de-identified privacy standards.
Why it matters
This initiative represents a growing trend of using consumer wearable data to build large-scale medical datasets for foundational health research.
Ultrahuman has launched a research platform that lets users of its smart rings sign up to wellness studies. It's called Pulsomics.
The wearables maker has already contributed to major health studies but Pulsomics is intended to make it easier and clearer for Ultrahuman smart ring customers to let their data be used in such studies.
"Pulsomics enables any Ultrahuman user to contribute to science, and to the creation of models that can predict everything from how much sleep you need to an individual's organ function," says Mohit Kumar, Ultrahuman CEO.
Upon registering, you will be asked for more pieces of personal data than would typically be requested when using a wearable. These include "age, sex, height, weight, ethnicity and skin tone information," and the latter is needed to help compensate for how optical heart rate reader hardware's signals are affected by skin tone.
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