The next big revolution in healthcare will not go in your pocket or sit on your desk. You will be wearing it...

1. electronic sensor tattoos
able to monitor skin hydration,
temperature and any electric signals
from muscle and brain activity
smart contact lenses
able to measure glucose
levels in tears
wearable pain relief patch
able to manage and track pain
smart fitness bands
able to measure a range of
activities from paces
walked to hours slept
smart watches
able to monitor heart rate
and all-day calorie burnt,
to read pulse,...
smart socks
able to coach users on their
running techniques in real time
and to monitor heart rate
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2019:
$5.8 billion expected
2012:
$2 billion
2014:
$2.7billion expected
for 10 million devices
2016:
100 million devices
wearable tech
boom in healthcare
physicians want
patients to monitor
health parameters
at home
88%
British & American
citizens is willing to use
wearable health tech
that shares personal
data with healthcare
providers
1 in 3
of Brit and American wearable
tech users felt more informed
61%
of wearable tech users in
America felt more believe it
has enhanced their lives
82%
fitness and medical
wearables accounted for
60%of the wearables market
in 2013
In 2012, the FDA approved a
sensor pill that monitors data
in the body to make sure
medication is taken properly.
patients and health
professionals involvement
potential cost savings of
using biometric devices to
monitor patients with
serious conditions
88%
challenges to overcomeWearables tech will transform the healthcare experience from the time you walk into a hospital until you return home
continually transmitting health data to your doctor virtually. But for the system to be efficient, challenges are still to overcome.
The marketplace is awash in
wearable medical technology, but
these devices won’t really help
doctors treat their patients until
we figure out how to make all that
data easy to access for them
through their own medical apps.
make data available
enhance security
As technology advances
come the need to deal with
privacy and data security
risks especially when data
starts being sent to a
medical provider.
As these wearables proliferate, a
great deal of data will be genera-
ted. This opportunity must be
managed with careful data analysis
and algorithms in order to provide
physicians with the right and
meaningful information they need.
make data meaningful
Interoperability will be another
consideration as the number of
disparate systems that will contain
these data sources – whether part
of other health care providers or
commercially available systems or
even from devices that individual
patients may purchase on their own.
enhance interoperability
The next big revolution in healthcare will not go in your pocket or sit on your desk. You will be wearing it.
sources: IMS research, MeMD, ABI Research, Deloitte, Rackspace