BRIDGE - GATHER
GATHER is the wearable-data application of the UCSF BRIDGE research program, run by the BRIDGE Team at UCSF. It is used only by participants enrolled in an IRB-approved BRIDGE research studies and by the study teams within UCSF.
What it does. When a participant signs in with Google and approves access, BRIDGE Gather uses the Google Health API to read, and never change, their activity, heart-rate and sleep data: steps and heart rate minute by minute, resting heart rate, heart-rate variability, Active Zone Minutes, and sleep sessions and stages. If the participant allows it, it also reads the time zone in their Google Health settings, so each day's data matches their own calendar day.
Why it needs this data. BRIDGE Gather stores the data on internal UCSF servers. The study team uses it for the approved research, and the participant's UCSF clinicians see activity, heart-rate and sleep trends in the BRIDGE dashboard, including during clinic visits.
We never sell this data or use it for advertising. Participants can disconnect at any time in their Google Account under Linked apps, or by emailing
bridge@ucsf.edu.
