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Could your smartphone help to diagnose heart disease? (40:59)

British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre

14 July 2026

Last Updated

1 January 2024

Devices like mobile phones and smartwatches can capture huge amounts of information about a person’s movements, behaviour and other signals like sleep or heart rhythms. Information like this could help doctors understand more about a person’s health and risk of developing disease in the future. In this interactive webinar for the public Professor Tim Chico explains how data from smartphones and wearables could help diagnose heart disease. We will discuss possible impacts on trust, privacy, security, and health inequalities. It is essential to get the views of the public and patients on how we use this data.

Organisation

British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre

The British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre (BHF DSC) is a partnership between Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) and the British Heart Foundation (BHF) enabling data-led research to improve heart and circulatory health. It sits within HDR UK and works with a wide range of partners including patients, public, clinicians, researchers and NHS organisations to help them carry out research using health data into the causes, prevention and treatment of all diseases of the heart and circulation (such heart attacks, stroke and vascular dementia).