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Your watch will soon know more about your health than your doctor
- New sensors and AI-driven analysis are set to diagnose more disease than doctors do and predict patients’ future health indicators.
- Smart algorithms already detect changes such as short and long-term changes in resting heart rates – an indicator of overall health – while simplified Apple Watch ECGs can pick up markers suggesting serious conditions like atrial fibrillation (AF).
- Forthcoming sensors will add new data streams to the mix, with Apple said to be considering how watch bands can be used to add new sensors, potentially, blood pressure or blood glucose monitors.
- Wearables could identify twice as many serious health conditions as doctors do by 2028; although regulatory, privacy & access issues still exist.
- Wearables have become catalysts for a proactive approach to healthcare based on predicting what is about to happen rather than monitoring what has happened.
- Experts predict that as such technologies are refined and then integrated into wearable form factors, including watches, smart rings, and even adhesive smart patches, they will become front-line healthcare tools.
- Wearables are empowering remote communities by allowing patients to send sensor data to doctors anywhere in the world.
- Wearables handle a cornucopia of information previously dependent on clinical observations, yielding continuous updates on vital signs.
- Smartwatches and wearables allow giving more health data continuously to individuals more than ever before.
- Yet, today’s wearables still sometimes give out indications of health values that aren’t substantiated by any evidence. Also, they flood users with minutiae
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