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This was a clarification of National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya’s statement during an April 21 meeting with NIH advisors that the study would draw in part from personal health information gathered across a variety of sources, including insurance claims, pharmacy chain medication records and fitness tracker data, a plan widely reported as an “autism registry.”

Study indicates that a fitness tracker can detect mood episodes in bipolar disorder to help drive treatment.

Investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, evaluated whether data collected from a fitness tracker could be used to accurately detect mood episodes in people with bipolar disorder.

Whether it’s the fitness tracker on your wrist, the “smart” home appliances in your house or the latest kids’ fad going viral in online videos, they all produce a trove of personal data for big tech companies.

Turley describes them as “an advanced fitness tracker.”