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Minute Insight: Hyfe Goes Physical With Wearable Partnership

 
• By Barnaby Pickering

The pure-play software company, which has developed a tool to record and monitor patients’ coughs, has signed a partnership to integrate its technology into a wearable.

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Hyfe, developer of AI technology to monitor patients’ coughs, has partnered with ActiGraph, a manufacturer of wearables for applications covering sleep, physical activity and gait, to create a new wearable.

The partnership will allow ActiGraph to integrate Hyfe’s cough-detection software into the LEAP wearable, a smartwatch-like device with a variety of sensors. The US Food and Drug Administration cleared...

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