Wearable Devices-From Healthy Lifestyle to Active Ageing

Description:
As wearable and mobile technologies are becoming more available and can provide more information and knowledge to users, new challenges and opportunities opens for industry and healthcare organizations.

How to cite:

Lewy H. Wearable Devices-From Healthy Lifestyle to Active Ageing. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2015 Aug;2015:7748-51. Available at: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=7320188

Document Type:
Article

Creation date:
22/04/2016

The future use of wearable by health and wellbeing users, from fitness tracking, to chronic disease management and independent living will create ecosystem for the population that will be adapted to their changing needs along lifespan in health and disease. This will also drive a change in healthcare delivery models and the relationship between patient and healthcare providers. It raises challenges for the healthcare systems as well as for the industry in implementing these new technologies, data privacy and security, regulation, adaptation of the systems to the individual and the growing amount of information in clinical practice and workflows. In this paper the vision, barriers, the gaps and opportunities will be discussed.

Authors:
Lewy H.

Geographical area:
Asia