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Have your say: Can you help develop a smartphone app to track heart health?

British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre

14 July 2026

Last Updated

1 January 2025

Smartphones and smartwatches, such as Fitbit, help track our fitness and activity, and can provide insights into our cardiovascular health. This information is a realistic reflection of our activity and health because it is gathered over long periods in home settings, complementing snapshots recorded in hospitals or GP practices.

The research team at the BHF Data Science Centre hope that a new app could give valuable insights into why heart and circulatory diseases develop, and enable earlier diagnoses of these conditions.

The BHF Data Science Centre is the UK centre of expertise for cardiovascular data science. It aims to create strong partnerships to health data science infrastructure and reduce barriers for research, and to involve patients and the public to build trust and ensure that its work meets people’s needs.

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).