Wearable Technologies: Impact on Patients and Healthcare Providers

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ABSTRACT
In the past year wearable technology has become a significant trend in user electronics. Last
year, tens of millions of these products were bought globally. Buyers seem to love the rising
variety of electronic devices they can wrap around their wrist or chest or even wear inside a bra
to monitor their health and fitness. These devices are to some extent motivating since it’s easier
to measure your progress toward a wellness goal when a digital display tells you exactly how far
you’ve walked in a day. The objective of this study is identifying technologies used in the health
sector. The study emphasized more on wearable technology which have had high demand in the
last year. The paper presents an in-depth review on the use of the wearable technology, its impact
on both the patient and the care giver, risks and outcomes of the technology. Qualitative study
was carried out. Dramatic progress is being made in continuous monitoring of many importance
of this wearable technology that can be of great advantage to patients especially those with
chronic diseases.

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When a digital gadget can tell you much sugar you have consumed in, how many
kilometers you have covered in your walking workout. As much as it marks it easier to track
your progress towards your health goal it is also a motivating factor. For this reason consumers
seem to love the growing trend in variety of electronic gadget that can be wrapped around their
wrist or chest or even wear inside a bra to monitor their health fitness
Wearable technologies are not only about counting steps or the intakes of calories. These
devices can be used to monitor glucose level, monitor blood pressure as well as the use of
diapers that can test the urinary tract infection. This devices have led t to the lack of need to visit
any laboratory collection center.
By use of this wearable technology it would be somehow great to be able to track
something like seizures from home. When they happen someone may experience (as an example)
being briefly unresponsive causing “awkward silences” in the middle of speaking. If the brain is
not in the right mood, one can have five or six seizures in a few minutes, (L. Straus,2008).By use
of the wearable technology one has reliable way to test what does and does not happen, the use
of unobtrusive wearable sensor that could detect rapid eye flickering, a sign of having a seizure.
“If I had a wearable device, I could do all the experimentation in my real life and not in a
laboratory,” (L. Straus, 2008) Just a single blood pressure test in a clinical setting does little to
reveal a person’s hypertensive status as they go about their day. “Continuous monitoring allows
doctors and clinicians and technologists to really understand a patient’s state of disease, more so
than those sporadic measures we take once in a while,”(H. Salah,2015) With the transition to
electronic health records, it is even possible that any information tracked by a patient’s wearable
scanner could be uploaded directly to their medical file.