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SC Demos How Wearable Technology Can Improve Cancer Treatment
An ATOM-HP kit from a USC lab includes wearables and technology that can monitor patients in real time and track pertinent medical data.
Credit: Aditi Harish / USC News
University of Southern California researchers participated in the Cancer Moonshot exhibit led by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, demonstrating a project that aims to provide doctors with real-time patient data from wearable technology and patient-reported experiences so physicians can base their treatment decisions on objective measures instead of only subjective and episodic observations. The USC project, called Analytical Technologies to Objectively Measure Human Performance (ATOM-HP), uses wearable technology and smartphones to improve cancer treatment. The project was demonstrated Monday (Oct. 3) at "South by South Lawn: A White House Festival of Ideas, Art and Action."
ATOM-HP will create a safety net for patients who have a hard time with cancer treatments. "Using technology to observe the experiences of our cancer patients while they are at home humanizes the impact of the therapy by making it visible in analytic form to the doctor," says USC professor Jorge Nieva. ATOM-HP is a convergent science initiative that brings together collaborators from a range of fields, Nieva says.
"Analyses of cancer data usually become available years after the information was first collected," says USC professor and ATOM-HP co-lead researcher Peter Kuhn. "Having access to real-time data will be invaluable for scientists."
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