The University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Nursing has been awarded a $1.23m grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research to build a new research centre. The UManage Center to Build the Science of Symptom Self-Management will examine if wearables can help patients with sleep problems. Teams with backgrounds in "nursing, psychological and brain sciences, big data and health informatics" will collaborate on 10 pilot projects over the next five years. A team at the University of Michigan is working towards developing an app that would allow people who have trouble sleeping to set their own alarm clock.
The University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Nursing has been awarded a $1.23m grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research to build a new research centre. The UManage Center to Build the Science of Symptom Self-Management will examine if wearables can help patients with sleep problems. Teams with backgrounds in "nursing, psychological and brain sciences, big data and health informatics" will collaborate on 10 pilot projects over the next five years. The first two projects will look at whether sweat cortisol is an indicator of stress, and if a wearable eye-tracking device can help cancer patients monitor fatigue.