{"id":5402,"date":"2020-01-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgehoglab.com\/4-ways-wearables-are-going-to-be-more-health-focused-in-future\/"},"modified":"2023-11-30T15:54:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T14:54:03","slug":"how-future-wearables-will-be-more-health-focused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgehoglab.com\/how-future-wearables-will-be-more-health-focused\/","title":{"rendered":"How future wearables will be more health focused."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
It’s fair to say that wearables have now replaced all the fancy watches\u201a and other accessories\u201a which occupied wrists for a long while. The demand for wearables has skyrocketed so much that Apple sold more Apple Watches<\/a> than the whole Swiss Watch Industry in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Most personal wearables available today have some form of health features. These usually include basic step tracking and carrying some form of sensor(s) to identify the heart rate of the individual wearing the device. But the ability to identify the number of steps you have taken during a day is now also visible on most mobile devices. It doesn’t make much sense that a wearable’s most valuable health-based output would be something your phone already does. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Instead\u201a we need wearable devices which can potentially perform diagnostic activity\u201a and are capable of providing useful health information to users. This should be presented in a manner which is easy to digest and allows the user to identify areas for improvement.\u00a0Better yet\u201a devices could even identify and suggest those improvements to help users improve their health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The good news is that wearables like these are exactly what companies in the field are looking at and working towards\u201a meaning we should see manufacturers provide their customers with more health-focused solutions in future. In the meantime\u201a we’ve put together a list of four ways that wearables could truly become healthcare products. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Some major companies like Nokia are working on devices which would be far more useful to both users and healthcare professionals – certainly more so than those currently on the market. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Indeed\u201a Rajeev Suri (CEO at Nokia) has expressed<\/a> his hope that in future wearables could spot cancer before medical practitioners even sit down to do a proper diagnosis of patients. The details on how this can be achieved remain unshared\u201a but we sure are excited to see how things develop. Were there to be a breakthrough\u201a the possibilities of increasing survival rate would be immense\u201a with such detection enabling early treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Though diabetes is a very dangerous disease\u201a technology is already available to help whose suffer from the disease to manage it better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However\u201a a study conducted using a combination of wearables and machine learning concluded<\/a> is possible that variations in heart rate could be used to predict the risk of diabetes even before clinical tests\u201a suggesting tech could also play a role in detection and diagnosis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Even the market’s current state\u201a devices could offer this function. However\u201a there is some challenge in that all machine learning currently takes place via the cloud. In the future\u201a it may be that all calculations and learnings could take place on the device\u201a providing ‘live’ information to users. <\/p>\n\n\n\nSpot Cancer at early stages:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Detect Diabetics:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n