# OpenHealth: Open Source Platform for Wearable Health Monitoring

## TL;DR

OpenHealth is an open source platform designed to standardize wearable devices and software for effective, autonomous health monitoring of movement disorders, addressing technical challenges and promoting widespread adoption.

## Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive open source platform with hardware, software, and applications for wearable health monitoring of movement disorders.

## Key findings

- Developed a wearable device prototype.
- Implemented standard software interfaces.
- Demonstrated activity and gesture recognition capabilities.

## Abstract

Movement disorders are becoming one of the leading causes of functional disability due to aging populations and extended life expectancy. Wearable health monitoring is emerging as an effective way to augment clinical care for movement disorders. However, wearable devices face a number of adaptation and technical challenges that hinder their widespread adoption. To address these challenges, we introduce OpenHealth, an open source platform for wearable health monitoring. OpenHealth aims to design a standard set of hardware/software and wearable devices that can enable autonomous collection of clinically relevant data. The OpenHealth platform includes a wearable device, standard software interfaces and reference implementations of human activity and gesture recognition applications.