With the tide of rising health costs in the US , people need to be empowered to have an active involvement in their own care , and the key to this is with wearable technology , according to Dr. Nick van Terheyden writing in HIT Consultant . 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. 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 activities 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 policy by creating healthy food outlets in areas with poor nutrition .
With the tide of rising health costs in the US , people need to be empowered to have an active involvement in their own care , and the key 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 activities 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 policy by creating healthy food outlets in areas with poor nutrition .