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McLaren Applied Technologies Health Unit
Business Director Duncan Bradley and McLaren
F1 driver Carlos Sainz at the McLaren Technology
Centre in Woking, Surrey, England
activity level, heart rate, joint movement, and glucose
information from wearables,” he says. “But we look at
a lot of other datasets, such as clinical reports from
hospitals and patients’ responses, to characterize
someone’s management of their lifestyle.”
SOLVING THE BIGGER PUZZLE
According to Bradley, McLaren Applied Technologies
is focused on the application of its analytics platform
in specific therapeutic areas and wellness applications—orthopedics,
diabetes, and weight loss, to
name a few. The core idea, he explains, is to “mechanize
and scale our approach to data analytics,” which
means monitoring doesn’t stop at the individual level.
As clinicians collect troves of health information,
there is an opportunity for such technology
to support wider health management initiatives.
“These are big societal issues, and data comes
from various places,” Bradley states. “We are
developing technologies to drive scalability and
apply insights from this huge amount of data to big
patient groups and populations.”
For starters, McLaren Applied Technologies is
working with Born in Bradford (BiB), a long-term
NHS project tracking health and well-being of over
13,500 children born in the Bradford area of West
Yorkshire UK, from birth into adult life.
The study generates a vast amount of data
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