Evidation Research Highlights

Shape the Future of Health Research

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By sharing your health data with researchers through the Everyone Registry, you can help unlock new treatments, discover insights into how conditions are managed, and accelerate progress toward better care for everyone.

Your health data is powerful.

By sharing your health data with researchers, you can help unlock new treatments, discover insights into how conditions are managed, and accelerate progress toward better care for everyone.

You make this possible.

The information you choose to share—like your daily experiences, health history, and wearable data—helps create a richer, more complete picture of health than researchers have ever had before.

Through the Evidation Community, we have an incredible opportunity to build one of the largest and most complete views of real-world health. These insights are essential to driving meaningful scientific breakthroughs across many conditions that may affect you or your loved ones.

You are always in control.

You decide what data to share, and you can change your choices at any time. Your privacy is our priority. You can participate from anywhere in the U.S., whenever it works best for you.

The data you share is coded before it’s shared with research partners. This means your name, email, and other personal details are removed—so researchers never see information that identifies you directly.

Your time and participation is valuable.

Because your contributions matter, we provide fair compensation that reflects your participation in this research. Whenever possible, we’ll also share back insights from this research with you and other participants.

Join us in shaping the future of health by becoming part of the Evidation Everyone Research Registry. Together, we can turn personal experiences into discoveries that improve lives worldwide.

Giving back: How to find opportunities to participate in medical studies

4 minutes

Explore how your willingness to participate in medical studies can make a difference to your health and to the future of medicine.

At Evidation, we're here to support you as you work to become the healthiest version of yourself. When you choose to share your health data with us, we analyze your daily actions and use them to provide you with content-based insights that can help you make the best health decisions for your needs. In addition to providing you with information to support your health, we also—with your permission—use the data we gather to support health research. Joining Evidation can help you have a lasting impact in helping the medical community understand patterns, develop treatments, and improve public health.

Here, we'll explore everything you need to know about participating in health research, including the difference between clinical research and medical studies, why your participation makes a difference, how you can participate in health research, and how Evidation protects your privacy when you choose to share your data with us.

Clinical research vs. medical studies: what's the difference?

Sometimes, the terms clinical research and medical studies are used interchangeably. While both terms fall under the umbrella of health research, they have different meanings and purposes.

Clinical research works to explore new treatments, interventions, and medical devices. Often, clinical trials require human participants to determine the safety and side effects of potential new treatments. Generally, clinical research has a narrow focus, such as exploring a single new treatment for a disease. This type of research works to advance the scientific understanding of and treatment for specific diseases.

Medical studies, in contrast, encompass all studies in the field of medicine (including clinical research). Basic science research, clinical research, epidemiological studies, genetic research, and analysis of public health trends all fall into the medical studies category.

Medical research with Evidation

At Evidation, we're committed to contributing to medical research, and we're proud that more than one million Evidation Members have participated in studies that contribute to the future of medicine. In 2024, Evidation Members completed 4.5 million research surveys, and thousands participated in medical studies including FluSmart2024, MigraineSmart, and the BARDA Study, a large-scale study designed to explore whether wearable devices can predict the presence of the flu.

There are many ways to contribute to medical research with Evidation, including choosing to share the health data that you're already tracking with our team. Many of our members also agree to join health studies run through our platform.

Here's how it works:

• Step one: determine eligibility. After you download the Evidation app, you'll notice opportunities to participate in health studies or programs. When you indicate your interest in joining a health study or research program with Evidation, we'll ask you questions about your habits and health conditions to determine whether you might be a candidate to participate.

• Step two: learn about the study. If you're determined eligible and are asked to participate in the study, you'll be presented with the opportunity to learn more. It's important to us to provide you with all the information you need to ensure that you feel comfortable participating. The Evidation team is always here to answer your questions at each step of the process.

• Step three: participate. You don't need to travel to participate in health studies with Evidation. Most of the studies we offer don't require you to use devices beyond your phone. In the event that you do need to use an activity tracker, smart scale, or other device, we'll send it to your door free of charge.

Why participation matters

When you participate in medical studies, you aren't just getting to learn more about your own health—you're also doing your part to support the health of others. Clinical trials and other forms of medical research can explore how different variables affect various facets of health. The information you provide by participating in health research can help to improve the quality of life of others, as well as provide you with insight into how your actions affect your own well-being.

Your privacy: how Evidation protects your data

Your privacy is our top priority, and our security team is dedicated to keeping your data as secure as possible. You choose the data you'd like to share with Evidation, and you have the right to revoke sharing at any time.

If you decide to participate in a study, we'll explain the information that will be used for the study. You'll be asked to sign an informed consent document to ensure you understand what data will be collected and how it will be used.

If you have any questions about what data we collect, how we use data, or who we share data with, please don't hesitate to reach out. Our team is here to help.

Hit your goals and help others with Evidation

If you're searching for ways to contribute to medical research, we're glad you found us. At Evidation, we use the data you choose to share to help take modern medicine to the next level. We're excited for you to join us in making a difference.

Click here to get started by downloading our free app. We appreciate your participation in driving medical research forward.

New week over week changes insights: steps and resting heart rate

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We’re introducing a new insights feature: week over week changes. Members will now receive weekly insights when Evidation observes a significant change in your weekly step count or average resting heart rate.

Often it’s interesting to know how your body and behavior change over time. That’s why we’re introducing a new insights feature: week over week changes. Beginning next week, members will receive weekly insights when Evidation observes a significant change in your weekly step count or average resting heart rate.

How it works

If you connect a wearable device to Evidation and give us permission to analyze your data, we’ll analyze your daily steps and resting heart rate data each week to determine if there was a notable change between last week and the week prior. In this case a “notable” change means at least a 20% change in your average daily step count. For resting heart rate, notable means at least a 5 beat per minute change in your average daily resting heart rate.

How do I interpret my week over week changes?

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Example: week over week heart rate insight

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Example: week over week step count insight

How do I get my week over week change alerts

In order to receive week over week change insights you’ll need to do the following:

1. Use a wearable device that logs either steps or heart rate (or both!) and connect it to the Evidation app. Make sure you enable sharing of steps and heart rate data when you connect your device.

Learn more about pairing connected devices here.

2. Wear your device at least 6 days per week. We need enough data on a weekly basis in order to accurately detect meaningful changes.

How often will I get my week over week change alerts?

You’ll receive weekly alerts if you wore your device enough during the week, have your device connected, and we detect a meaningful change. If you do not receive an insight and have your device connected, it means we didn’t find any significant changes in your steps or resting heart rate.

Health insights on Evidation

We’re constantly adding new insight types to help our members learn more about their health and take control of their health journey. Keep a look out for additional insight types coming soon.

Interested in seeing insights like this, but don’t have a device connected yet, Find out which devices are compatible with Evidation and how you can pair your device here.

Don’t yet have the Evidation app? Download now on iOS or android.

Why participants are so important to health research

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Health research isn’t possible without the contributions of research participants. Find out how participants help contribute and how you can participate.

Health research is very important for improving health care for all.

As we mentioned in a previous article, What is Health Research?,  this type of research helps medical researchers understand people’s health and how we can make treatments better for everyone.

But health research isn’t possible without the contributions of research participants. Research participants are volunteers who consent (in other words, give their permission) to be in a study. They provide the data (from surveys, lab tests, interviews, etc.) that researchers need to answer important questions that improve health care.

In fact, research participants are the most important part of research — without participants, medical advancements can’t happen!

Why participate in research?

There are a lot of great reasons to participate in research! Some common reasons people participate include:

• Contributing to medical science
• Learning more about health and health research
• Wanting to help improve treatment options for a variety of conditions
• Wanting to find a better treatment for a condition they have

Whatever your personal reasons for participating, being a part of health-related research can have a lasting impact.

Why do researchers need research participants?

Did you know that most research studies don’t enroll enough people on time? When this happens, research efforts to develop medications, devices, and treatments get delayed. It causes studies to take longer than expected and ends up costing researchers more. This can lead to increased medication prices and delays in getting new treatments to market.

These factors limit progress in developing new treatments for conditions like Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, Cancers, Autoimmune Disorders, and many others.

Many of us have loved ones or know someone living with a condition that has no treatment and limited options for improving quality of life.

You may wonder, “with all the science and technology in the world, why isn’t there a cure or better treatment for this condition?”

Without research and participants, we can’t develop new or improved treatments.

That’s why it’s important that those who want to participate in health research have the ability and support to do so.

How to participate in research

There are many ways to learn about research participation opportunities. You can find opportunities online, in ads, through medical professionals, on the Evidation app, and more.

Here are some resources that can get you started if you’re interested in participating in a study!

• Evidation Studies specializes in decentralized research which is an easy way to contribute to medical science. To learn how to participate in one of our studies, check out our article How to Participate in a Research Study on Evidation. You can also download the Evidation app to learn more!
• Check out clinicaltrials.gov, which is a registry of clinical trials that provides the public with information on past and current trials.
• Talk to your healthcare providers to see if they know of research studies that may apply to you.

Results of Research Studies

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Participants belong to a large community of people who help researchers learn more about important health conditions and treatments. Because they devote their time, data, and effort to research that can improve health care for all, it’s important that participants receive value in return for their contributions.

Return of Results to Participants

When researchers want to learn more about people and their health, they perform research studies. The individuals who agree to participate in these studies are called participants.

Participants belong to a large community of people who are helping researchers learn more about important health conditions and treatments. They play a key role in research studies by contributing their time and information about their health (researchers call this, personal health data) to help us better understand certain health conditions or behaviors.

Because participants devote their time, data, and effort to research that can improve health care for all, it’s important that participants receive value in return for their contributions.

One important way to give value back to participants is to give them a summary of the study they participated in. Study summaries are easy-to-read descriptions of the research conducted.

What information is found in study summaries?

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The content and format of study summaries is different depending on the study. At Evidation Studies, our study summaries are typically sent as emails and may include the following information:

• Why the study was done
• What happened during the study
• Who participated in the study
• What the results of the study were
• Where you can learn more

These summaries are a great way for participants to see the impact they made when participating in study. Sometimes, participants may even be able to extract useful information from the summaries that they can use to improve their day-to-day health.

Evidation Studies is committed to continuously identifying ways to improve the study experience, and we’ve started to return study summaries to participants when possible. We will continue to work towards a better understanding of the needs of our participants, so that we can return value in the most meaningful ways possible.