mHealth & Wearable Tech: The New Stethoscope WSJ provides an excellent snapshot of how mobile and wearable tech is (and will continue to) change healthcare. Described as new “tools” of care, mHealth & wearable tech has essentially become the new stethoscopes of health and wellness. Using wearable wireless sensors, you can use your smartphone to
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mHealth & Wearable Tech: The New Stethoscope
WSJ provides an excellent snapshot of how mobile and wearable tech is (and will continue to) change healthcare. Described as new “tools” of care, mHealth & wearable tech has essentially become the new stethoscopes of health and wellness.
Using wearable wireless sensors, you can use your smartphone to generate your own medical data, including measuring your blood-oxygen and glucose levels, blood pressure and heart rhythm. And if you’re worried that your child may have an ear infection, a smartphone attachment will let you perform an easy eardrum exam that can rapidly diagnose the problem without a trip to the pediatrician.
These innovations are just the start. In the next year or two (depending on approval by the FDA), many Americans will probably start sporting wristwatches that continuously and passively capture their blood pressure and vital signs with every heartbeat, without even having to press a start button.
mHealth & wearable tech is empowering and engaging consumers to take control of their care. Further revolutionizing the industry is our ability to purchase diagnostics and labs and interact with providers like never before. As health IT innovations continue to open doors for new pathways in obtaining, managing, and coordinating care, more engaged and informed consumers will emerge. Where we previously depended solely on the word of our primary care physician, we now can take part in our own wellness and care via the tools of innovations in mHealth, wearables, and emerging technologies.
Source: Wallstreet Journal
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