Determined to reduce the cost of having to staff his stores with enough clerks to personally help each customer with over-the-counter purchases, he changed the paradigm. 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. Wearable technology has been around for a while, but it was only recently that people started using them as part of everyday life.