%0 Journal Article %A Alexander Hunter %A Todd Leckie %A Daniel Fitzpatrick %A Anacarolina Goncalves %A Alan Richardson %A Luke Hodgson %T Digitally enhanced recovery from severe COVID-19: a new frontier? %D 2021 %R 10.7861/fhj.2020-0271 %J Future Healthcare Journal %P fhj.2020-0271 %X During the first wave of intensive care unit admissions with COVID-19, in response to the constraints of social distancing we introduced a new digitally enabled critical care rehabilitation pathway. Using smartwatch technology, this pathway rapidly enabled our multidisciplinary team to observe the recovery of a COVID-19 cohort across eight NHS acute hospitals across the south of England. This represents one of the geographically largest smartwatch studies of its kind. %U https://www.rcpjournals.org/content/futurehosp/early/2021/05/03/fhj.2020-0271.full.pdf