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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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