The Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust is part of an innovative trial using data from a patient's Fitbit to help them recover from heart attacks.
Along with NHS colleagues in London and Sheffield and tech firms Fitbit, Google and ConnectedLife, the NHS Trust is trialling a new system which can use smartwatch data to help improve rehabilitation services for those who have had a heart attack or heart surgery.
The idea is that the Digitally Enhanced Rehabilitation in Cardiac Patients (DERIC) platform will help break down barriers which can prevent people from accessing rehab services - along with tackling health inequalities which see poor rates of uptake on cardiac rehab programmes. Women and people from deprived areas are already at high risk of failing to complete rehab programmes.
