Decentralize your trials with digital endpoints and a powerful end-to-end platform
Using industry-leading wearable devices, collect data remotely with instant access through an intuitive online portal. Conducting trials at scale from patients’ homes has never been easier.
Using industry-leading wearable devices, collect data remotely with instant access through an intuitive online portal. Conducting trials at scale from patients’ homes has never been easier.
A complete platform for decentralized, virtual, and hybrid clinical trials
Embrace for Research is a fully integrated platform for conducting real-world trials across multiple sites. Empatica’s powerful Embrace2 and EmbracePlus wearables can continuously and accurately record and send physiological information to the cloud, enabling virtually unlimited data and scalability. And through the Research Portal, researchers can cost-effectively conduct multi-site studies and analyze data remotely and securely, accelerating their findings and reducing costs.
Multi-site studies
Build a research team and check the progress of multiple sites at a glance
Team management
Each study or site created is isolated, you can fine-tune access levels for each team member
Easy set-up
By deploying a one-time-use QR code scan, we simplify subject enrollment while ensuring that there are no ID errors
Optimal research platform
Review deployed device status and monitor subject compliance in real time
Our products are trusted by the world’s most renowned pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, and academics
SLEEP APNEA STUDY
Sleep Revolution H2020
The Sleep Revolution, an interdisciplinary international research and development project, aims to develop a smart, personalized diagnostic and therapeutic solution for sleep-disordered breathing (sleep apnea). Using the EmbracePlus smartwatch, the study entails developing Machine Learning models to determine the severity and treatment needs of people with sleep apnea, for accurate diagnosis and improved treatment.
ADHD STUDY
Timespan H2020
TIMESPAN, a consortium of 17 institutions from 14 countries has launched the ART-CARMA project, to study the management of chronic cardiometabolic disease and treatment discontinuity in adult ADHD patients. Using EmbracePlus, the project aims to understand the risks of cardiometabolic illnesses such as cardiovascular disease and obesity for adults with ADHD, and how their future health can best be improved through medication.
DIGITAL ENDPOINT VALIDATION STUDY
VeraSci
VeraSci’s Innovation Lab has been conducting an NIH-funded study examining the relationship between real-time measurements of gait and actigraphy, collected by the Embrace2, and established cognitive and functional endpoints that are sensitive to decline early in the Alzheimer’s disease continuum. Their preliminary data suggest a positive correlation between in-clinic measurements and the endpoints developed using Embrace2 data for monitoring the patient's cognitive health.
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals utilized Empatica Health Monitoring Platform during their international multi-site phase-4 anti-epileptic drug trial. Empatica’s FDA-cleared seizure detection algorithm and the e-diary app allowed Sunovion to continuously monitor patients, gaining an objective insight into seizure counts while remotely monitoring compliance throughout the study.
FLU PREVENTION STUDY
Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority
The US government’s Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has partnered with Empatica to develop a digital endpoint for detecting the earliest signs of the flu. Through the use of the Embrace2 wearable and Empatica data analysis expertise, they engaged in a prospective study monitoring healthy individuals throughout the flu season with the aim to develop an early detection system. Following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, BARDA and Empatica renewed their partnership to utilize EmbracePlus and the Care suite for Covid-19 early detection.
MENTAL HEALTH STUDY
Harvard University
Harvard University Clinical Psychologist Dr. Matthew K. Nock is using Embrace for Research to detect digital phenotypes related to suicidal thoughts in a multi-site study involving hundreds of individuals wearing Embrace2. This is the largest-yet study about suicidal behavior also measuring skin conductance levels as an objective way to assess changes in physiological distress in the participants.
BIOFEEDBACK
4YouandMe
4YouandMe, a non-profit company founded by Dr. Stephen H. Friend has partnered with clinicians at Oxford University and Mount Sinai School of Medicine to conduct a multi-site prospective cohort study, utilizing Empatica wearables to monitor signs of stress and symptoms of Crohn's disease. The aim of this project is to provide biofeedback to patients with Crohn’s, in order to potentially prevent negative clinical changes in their condition.
ZERO GRAVITY STUDY
MIT Media Lab
MIT Media Lab’s doctoral student, Kristina T. Johnson has embarked on a journey to measure autonomic changes in parabolic flyers. Parabolic flight planes are notorious for inducing high levels of nausea. By using Empatica’s technology and other biosignal measures, Kristy and her team were able to gain an objective insight into novice and veteran flyers’ physiological well-being during flights.
DIGITAL THERAPEUTICS
Pear Therapeutics
Pear Therapeutics, the leader in prescription digital therapeutics, is using Empatica’s technology to explore using wearable sensors in the evaluation of withdrawal symptoms in patients with substance use disorder (SUD), opioid use disorder (OUD), and alcohol use disorder (AUD). Using the EmbracePlus smartwatch, Pear Therapeutic aims to integrate real-time personalization of digital therapeutic content and pharmaceutical dosing to patients across disease stages.
How does Embrace for Research work?
Embrace2
Embrace2's sensors measure physiological parameters including electrodermal activity, motion, and skin temperature, which are continuously sent via Bluetooth® to the Mate App
Mate
The Mate App automatically transfers the received Embrace data and diary entries to Empatica's cloud. A subset of the processed data are visualized in the app's 24-hours wheel
Research Portal
Through the Research Portal you can manage your studies and access raw and processed data received from the subjects
fda-cleared
embrace2
Continuous and accurate participant data
A medical-grade wearable to continuously measure physiological parameters, giving insights into sleep, activity, autonomic arousal, and seizures for many different typologies of clinical/research studies.
Patented technology
Collect objective biometric data
Clinical-grade sensors
EDA, PPG, Accelerometer and Gyroscope
Non-stop data collection
Thanks to sophisticated sensors, on-board memory and continuous data streaming
Continuous monitoring of the Sympathetic Nervous System
The only smartwatches to offer continuous EDA data streaming
Award-winning design
Maximum comfort and wearability, to improve subject recruitment, retention, and compliance
Technical specifications
EDA Sensor
Sampling frequency: 4Hz (fixed)
Resolution: 55 fSiemens
Range: 0 μSiemens - 80μ - 80 e:
AC excitation, 4Hz, max.
Electrodes (applied parts):
Placement on either the ventral (inner) wrist or dorsal (outer) wrist.
Temperature Sensor
Sampling frequency: 1Hz
Range: -20ºC to 70ºC
Resolution: 0.15ºC
3-Axis accelerometer
Sampling frequency: 32Hz
High sensitivity motion detection on 3 axes:
Range ± 16g.
Resolution: 16 bits
Gyroscope
Sampling frequency: 32Hz
High sensitivity motion detection on 3 axes
Range ± 500 degrees/sec.
Resolution: 16 bits
Mate App
An end to paper diaries
The Mate App keeps participants engaged while it collects, visualizes, and transmits device data to the Research Portal, where you can review it at a glance.
Safeguard participant engagement through a simple, user-friendly app.
Complement device data with self-reporting from participants, via daily e-diary entries, that can provide insights for understanding subjective outcomes.
Encourages patients to stay engaged throughout your study by visualizing their sleep and activity data.
Secure and reliable data transfer and visualization. A unique identifier also ensures that the subject’s data is partitioned correctly and stored securely.
hiipa compliant
Research Portal
Easily manage and access data from multiple sites and studies
The Research Portal allows research teams, CRO personnel, and study coordinators to visualize, monitor, and download data from different types of longitudinal and clinical studies on the cloud.
Using Electronic Data Capture (EDC) can result in significant savings throughout all the phases of clinical trials. This graph illustrates an estimation of how much a pharmaceutical company can save per patient in each phase if using a solution like Empatica’s.
All our clients benefit from detailed and dedicated onboarding, including an account manager and site support to walk you through every step of the process
We handle the logistics and provide IRB materials so you can focus on your research
Dedicated customer and technical support
Start collecting data in less than 5 minutes with auto-generated QR codes for participant enrollment
Meeting global safety and security standards
What is your multi-site research goal?
Talk with our experts to discover how Embrace for Research can empower your investigation.