Benzinga | Oct 29, 2020 09:23AM EDT

Fitbit Receives $2.5M Army Award To Help Accelerate Its COVID-19 Wearable Detection Technology

Fitbit plans to initiate a prospective study with Northwell Health to help validate its algorithm for early COVID-19 detection

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Fitbit (NYSE:FIT) Fitbit announced today it has been selected by the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command (USAMRDC) to receive nearly $2.5 million from the U.S. Department of Defense through a Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium (MTEC) award to advance development of a wearable diagnostic capability for the early detection of a COVID-19 infection. As part of the award, Fitbit is working to initiate a prospective study with Northwell Health's Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research to validate a Fitbit COVID-19 early detection algorithm.