Oura exploring how its ring could detect brain hemorrhages after Bill Ackman suggests it could have helped his daughter

Oura exploring how its ring could detect brain hemorrhages after Bill Ackman suggests it could have helped his daughter John Lamparski/Bloomberg/Getty Images Oura is looking into how its smart ring could be used to detect brain hemorrhages after billionaire investor Bill Ackman suggested such a feature could have helped his daughter.Ackman, founder of Pershing Square Capital Management, shared this week that his 26-year-old daughter, Lucy, experienced a brain hemorrhage in February. He said data from her Oura Ring later helped determine when the hemorrhage had occurred, which was many hours before she was found unconscious, brought to a hospital, diagnosed, and rushed into surgery at around 3 a.m."Later that day, we determined from Lucy's Oura ring that her hemorrhage had occurred around 9am, which meant that more than 19 hours had passed from the time of the hemorrhage to the completion of the surgery to release the pressure on her brain," Ackman wrote in a lengthy X post on Wednesday, adding, "I only wish @ouraring had an alert for this kind of a medical event. Imagine it could call a family member if the wearer doesn't cancel the alert."In response to Ackman's post, Tom Hale, CEO of Oura, said Friday the company was looking into exactly that."I am glad that the insights from Lucy's Oura Ring were able to give you and your family information that helped inform her care. I wish we had been able to predict or detect what happened," Hale said in a reply on X. "I keep coming back to the question of whether Oura could have seen anything that might have helped and then alerted Lucy."Hale said he directed his team to investigate whether its ring could detect a medical event like this.When reached for comment, Oura directed Business Insider to Hale's post.The Oura Ring is among the most popular wearable wellness trackers on the market. The ring tracks metrics such as heart rate, sleep stages, body temperature, and daily movement, though the company website states that the ring is not a medical device and is not intended to diagnose, monitor, or prevent medical conditions.Ackman said his daughter, who was in a coma for several weeks, spent six months in the hospital and is still recovering. He said she has regained her cognition and is making progress on walking and speaking, but that she has not regained her vision. Ackman announced that he and his wife, designer Neri Oxman, were launching the Ackman Oxman Institute, a nonprofit focused on brain research, recovery, and longevity."We have learned from Lucy that the brain can recover from even catastrophic injury," he said. "There is so much more work to be done as the mind is a terrible thing to waste."Kim Schewitz contributed reporting. Read next Kelsey is a senior reporter for Business Insider, where she covers business and tech news as well as stories about travel, luxury, and consulting.Her feature story "Disaster at 18,200 feet" received awards from the New York Press Club and the North American Travel Journalists Association, as well as honorable mention from the Society of American Travel Writers. It was also included on Longreads' and Pocket's best of 2022 lists. She has also received an American Journalism Online Award for her coverage on missing and murdered Indigenous people in Wyoming.She's appeared on CBS, NPR, NBC, and other outlets to discuss her work. She previously worked on the world news desk at the BBC in London and received a master's in journalism from Northwestern University.She can be reached by email at kvlamis@businessinsider.com or via the encrypted-messaging app Signal @kelseyv.21.Popular storiesDisaster on Denali: Inside a 1,000-foot fall on America's highest peakThrifting is more popular than ever. It's also never been worse.Rolex wouldn't service the vintage watch my mom inherited. Watchmakers say it happens all the time.A tiny, invasive bug and the climate crisis are changing how guitars are made, and shifting the course of music historyThe tourism free-for-all is overGovernment-run boarding schools were founded to 'civilize' Native Americans. Hundreds of dead children remain buried in the schoolyard graves.Meet the Texas minister who helps fly dozens of women to New Mexico every month to get abortionsPeople are flocking to Colorado for the great outdoors, but the air pollution is so bad, it's forcing many to stay insideInside Kabul: An aid worker reveals the devastating chaos that erupted during the US exit from Afghanistan