The healthcare industry is poised to usher in the next revolution with the launch of wearable devices which have quickly became a part of our everyday life. Formulated in different shapes and sizes, these modern gadgets help in tracking our health and fitness data apart from acting as a statistician, motivator and a virtual doctor.
These devices have sensors attached to them for tracking of several parameters that measure your health potency, such as sleep, heart rate, cholesterol level and calories burnt etc. With all possible offerings that wearables can bring in, it is certain that these devices are going to play a prominent role in the future of health care. Some of the key areas where wearables are contributing include:
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Self-awareness about your own health
A wearable device helps you to track your daily activities such as eating, walking, sleeping, exercising etc which contributes immensely to your well-being. To a great extent, it increases your self-awareness about your own health. This propels you to take steps in order to achieve your desired health goals.
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Appropriate health management tool
We all know the importance of a healthy lifestyle. You might have adopted few fitness routines and daily exercises in order to reach your coveted health goals. The use of wearable devices can help you to know whether your workout activities are helping you in achieving your health goals, thereby acting as a crucial tool for your health management.
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Accurate diagnosis of diseases
Wearable devices can provide enormous benefits to healthcare providers. They can use these gadgets to monitor the patient’s data for long periods of time to get a better view of the issues that are affecting them. They can then use this data about the patients to make more accurate diagnosis of their ailments than they would have been able to do without using these devices.
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Routine care for patients
Wearables can be very helpful when it comes to routine care of patients, especially those affected by dementia or Alzheimer. With an inbuilt non-invasive blood glucose sensor, it enables the doctors to keep a track of the blood-sugar level of their patients and determine whether they’re taking their medications on time or not. These devices can also be utilised to monitor heart-rate of the patients and help them in speedy recovery from cardiac ailments.
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Keeping obesity under control
Wearable devices are very useful in keeping your obesity under control by counting the number of steps you’ve walked and calories burnt throughout the day. It can also recommend you an appropriate diet that will help you in maintaining your adequate Body-Mass-Index or BMI. You can even set your workout goals for the day and track your progress towards the same.
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Motivator to keep you on right track
Wearable devices can also act as an excellent motivator using which you can set alerts and reminders to ensure you never deviate from your fitness track. You can set your health objectives, track your progress and unlock incentives upon reaching the goals. By making you accountable through the provision of unbiased data, these gadgets can motivate you to stay true to your fitness aims.
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Your trusted health consultant
In addition to providing you with the option of tracking your health parameters and daily activities, wearables can also help you to get expert medical advice anytime and at any place. The data pooled in these devices by tracking your activities are analysed and based on those results, medical tips are collected from the expert doctors and displayed in your gadgets.
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Customised health insurance plans
In contrast with using medical tests for risk assessment which records only one-time data, usage of wearable devices can help the insurers in getting access to continuous stream of health data about the policyholder. This will enable them to perform real-time risk assessments just like the use of telematics in motor insurance. The availability of your health data will help the insurers in providing you with health insurance plans.
Hence, in terms of usability, the potential of wearable devices seems endless. Apart from helping the individuals in robust healthcare management, these gadgets have empowered the healthcare professionals, health insurance companies and the researchers to get access to the recorded data in order to provide better health care solutions and aid quick recovery of ailments.