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IHI Call 12 (2026): Major EU Funding for Healthcare Innovation, Digital Health and AI
IHI Call 12 offers substantial EU funding for collaborative projects advancing digital health, mobile health, and AI-driven healthcare innovation across Europe.
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Best Practices for Long-Term Monitoring of HRV Using Frequency Domain Features
Frequency-domain HRV features offer a powerful, non-invasive way to track chronic stress and autonomic balance over time. This post outlines the key metricsโHF power, LF power, and LF/HF ratioโand best practices for consistent long-term monitoring in clinical and research settings.
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Just in Time Interventions for Loneliness, Lessons From a Mobile Health Pilot Study
Just in time interventions promise support at the moment it matters most, but real world timing can make or break their impact. This mobile health pilot reveals what happens when theory meets daily life, and what it takes to deliver mental health support that truly fits.
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From Spikes to Drains: Using HRV to Tell Acute Stress from Chronic Stress
Acute stress shows up as rapid physiological spikes, while chronic stress appears as slow, cumulative drains on the nervous system. In HRV data, fast changing metrics like RMSSD and pNN50 capture immediate reactions, while SDNN and the HRV Triangular Index reflect long term autonomic strain and recovery.
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OpenAI for Healthcare, Advancing Care With Responsible AI
OpenAI has released OpenAI for Healthcare, a new initiative focused on applying AI to clinical workflows, patient communication, and research. The release emphasizes responsible deployment, with safety, privacy, and human oversight as core requirements.
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Centralive and the UCI Institute for Future Health Co-Host a Pre-Course at SBM 2026
Building wearable-powered mHealth studies should not take months or require coding expertise. In our upcoming SBM 2026 pre-course, Centralive and the UCI Institute for Future Health will show how researchers can design and launch real-world wearable and EMA studies in hours, not months, using a no-code approach focused on science, not software.
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Loneliness Is Not Just a Feeling, It Is a Pattern
Loneliness is not invisible, it leaves measurable traces in sleep, movement, heart rate variability, and even phone use. A new study powered by the Centralive platform shows how wearables reveal the daily patterns that cause loneliness, not just predict it, and why this changes how we think about prevention.
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NIH Funding Opportunity for Mobile Health Research in Low and Middle-Income Countries
Application Deadline: March 20, 2026 Researchers and organizations working on innovative mobile health (mHealth) solutions for low and middle-income countries (LMICs) should take note of an important funding opportunity from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This program supports exploratory and developmental research aimed at advancing mobile technologies that can improve health outcomes in resource-limited […]
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What Really Breaks HR and HRV in Wearables
Wearable heart rate and HRV sensors are often blamed when data looks wrong, but real world errors are dominated by motion and contact instability. Across everyday use, movement overwhelms the pulse signal far more than skin tone or sunlight. The figures below show why HR and HRV break down in motion, and how modern multi wavelength PPG systems are designed to reduce that damage.
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We are pleased to share the release of a new open access dataset published in Data in Brief.
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