Wearable technology refers to electronic devices that can be worn on the body or attached to clothing and accessories. They have microcontrollers, sensors, batteries, memory, and internet connectivity. Some common examples of wearable technology are smart watches, smart glasses, smart jewelry, smart jackets, and sensors embedded in shoes and clothing. Wearable technology can collect data on health, fitness, and performance of the individual waering it.
Wearable Technology in Healthcare
Wearbale technology is being widely used in healthcare. The reason is simple! To understand the dynamics of the human body and it’s reaction to various stimuli. Here, we can use the word ‘stimuli’ that represents any external or internal changes in the human body, like excessive glucose consumption, protein metabolism, calories burned off, reacting to a certain drug, it’s unexplored side effects, and so on. The list of these ‘stimuli’ is exhaustive!!
We will now understand in detail, how wearbale technology is useful in healthcare.
How can wearable technology improve patient care?
Wearable technology can improve patient care in several ways. Some of the benefits of wearable technology in healthcare are:
- Personal and present: Wearable technology is personal and present in moments of a patient’s life when another technology isn’t.
- Focuses on healthy habits: Wearable technology focuses on healthy habits and provides just-in-time coaching.
- Affordable and accessible: Wearable technology is affordable and accessible, especially in countries outside the United States.
- Powerful, personalized, and moment-to-moment health analysis: Wearable technology provides powerful, personalized, and moment-to-moment health analysis that could allow early detection and improved outcomes.
- Remote monitoring: Wearable technology allows remote monitoring and reduces in-person and costly visits to doctors’ offices and hospitals.
- Facilitates preventive care, chronic disease management, and patient empowerment: Wearable technology facilitates preventive care, chronic disease management, and patient empowerment.
- Reduces healthcare costs and staff workload: Wearable technology reduces healthcare costs and staff workload.
- Can be used to perceive, record, analyze, regulate, and intervene to maintain health and even treat diseases: Wearable technology can be used to perceive, record, analyze, regulate, and intervene to maintain health and even treat diseases.
How can wearable technology help with chronic disease management?
Wearable technology can help with chronic disease management in several ways. Some of the benefits of wearable technology in chronic disease management are:
- Remote monitoring: Wearable technology allows remote monitoring of patients with chronic diseases, reducing the need for in-person visits to doctors’ offices and hospitals.
- Real-time data: Wearable technology provides real-time data on patients’ health, allowing doctors to make more informed decisions about treatment.
- Early detection: Wearable technology can help with early detection of changes in a patient’s condition, allowing for timely intervention and improved outcomes.
- Patient empowerment: Wearable technology empowers patients to take a more active role in managing their own health by providing them with information and tools to track their symptoms and medication adherence.
- Improved communication: Wearable technology can improve communication between patients and healthcare providers or doctors by allowing for easy sharing of data and facilitating remote consultations.
Conclusion
The data collection of a live human body is of utmost importance when it comes to the research part. Wearable technology can have multiple uses in healthcare research, as it can be used to extract data from any method and be used in multiple settings.
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