Garmin Health Summit 2023: A Convergence of Innovation and Technology
Garmin Health, renowned for its advanced digital health solutions that utilize the comprehensive data and insights from its product ecosystem, recently held the fifth annual Garmin Health Summit in Singapore. This prestigious event celebrated the 2023 Garmin Health Awards, honoring trailblazers in healthcare and wellness who are pushing the boundaries to enhance outcomes for businesses, patients, and overall population health.
Jörn Watzke, Garmin Health’s Senior Director of Global B2B Sales, expressed his pride and admiration for this year’s winners, stating, “We are proud to recognize this year’s extremely impressive health and wellness solutions. It’s truly inspiring and motivating to see such a high level of innovation. On behalf of everyone at Garmin, congratulations to all the winners and to all who participated in the Garmin Health Awards.”
Celebrating the Winners: Innovators Transforming Health and Wellness
The 2023 Garmin Health Awards were bestowed upon those who excelled in the integration of Garmin wearables into innovative solutions, evaluated on criteria like benefit, scalability, uniqueness, and innovation.
Category: Health Care & Research
Winner: Blue Room Biometrics by Real Response Pty. Ltd., Australia Blue Room Biometrics stands out for integrating Garmin smartwatch data into virtual and mixed reality training experiences. They leverage the Garmin Health SDK to deliver real-time data and stress measurements for customizing training experiences.
Category: Insurance & Employee Health
Winner: Sleep Advice Technologies Srl, Italy Sleep Advice Technologies impressed with PREDICTS, an innovative algorithm predicting sleep onset. It offers real-time fatigue analysis and has shown effectiveness in heavy-duty truck fleets since January 2023.
Category: Fitness & Wellness
Winner: Humanoo, Germany Humanoo, a global health and wellbeing platform, excels in offering holistic health engagement and services, including 1-to-1 coaching and employee assistance programs, to over 750 corporate clients and 21 leading European insurers.
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Keynote Address and Exciting Announcements
The Summit’s keynote, presented by Mathias Basner, MD, PhD, MScEpi, focused on the Polaris Dawn mission’s health monitoring in space, utilizing Garmin fēnix 7 smartwatches. Additionally, Garmin Health announced the enhanced availability of Beat to Beat Interval (BBI) measurements, a tool for collecting raw heart rate variability data, exclusive to Garmin Health customers.
Scott Burgett, Senior Director of Garmin Health Engineering, highlighted the importance of HRV and BBI in health research, saying, “One of the variables that make Garmin Health an attractive business solution for other companies is its dedication and access to advanced data and analytics, specifically heart rate variability (HRV) and beat-to-beat intervals (BBI). We believe BBI is an important biometric that can help researchers and insurers better understand a user’s overall health and wellness.”
Garmin Health: Driving the Future of Digital Health
Garmin Health, through its advanced wearable technology and sensor data, is spearheading significant changes in the digital health and therapeutic industries. Offering extensive business solutions for corporate wellness, population health, and patient monitoring, Garmin Health is set to continue its impact on global health trends. For further information, interested parties can connect with the Garmin Health team, follow them on LinkedIn, or visit the Garmin Health website.
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