With the tide of rising health costs in the US, patients need to be empowered to have an active involvement in their own care, and the answer to this is with wearable technology, according to Dr. Nick van Terheyden writing in HIT Consultant. The promise of wearables is that we become accountable to ourselves and others, by getting real-time health data we become more cognizant of our bodies and how our daily actions impact upon them. Wearable technology has been around for a while, but it was only recently that people started using them as part of everyday life.
With the tide of rising health costs in the US, patients need to be empowered to have an active involvement in their own care, and the answer to this is with wearable technology, according to Dr. Nick van Terheyden writing in HIT Consultant. The promise of wearables is that we become accountable to ourselves and others, by getting real-time health data we become more cognizant of our bodies and how our daily actions impact upon them. Moreover, these data can then be reanalyzed en masse to give us better insight about health trends, or even further to influence public health by targetting healthy food outlets in areas with poor nutrition.