Wednesday 8 May 2019

Role of Wearable Tech in the Healthcare Industry

The wearable technology was started in the 13th century and introduced a portable and wearable clock, and lately, these high-tech watch has developed into many life-changing tools. Thanks to the digital revolution over the past few decades, we have seen major advances in wearable tech's sophistication and capabilities that have given rise to a new term ‘telemedicine’.

Telemedicine is the use of telecommunication and information technology to provide health facilities like health assessments, consultations, and such through video conferences and such real-time video streaming applications. It is the fastest medium to reach distant remote areas and rural areas. Wearable tech is the latest norm that offers healthcare at your hands.

Due to their placement on the body, devices such as smart watches and wearable sensors have the capability to transform healthcare as we know it. In addition to empowering the individual to gain proper insight into their bodies and better manage their health, wearable devices like smart glasses greatly enhance medical providers’ ability to provide informed and personal care.


Wearable Tech and Personal Fitness

Many devices aids in better understanding and take control of personal fitness and nutrition. Studies have repeatedly shown that people tend to underestimate how many calories they consume while also overestimating how many calories they burn through exercise.

This makes weight management challenging since burning more calories than you eat is key to losing weight. With the help of augmented reality (AR), field service management software have been introduced that makes life simpler.

Wearable devices that track how many calories you burn throughout your day combined with tracking exactly how much you eat quantify your efforts and eliminates all the guesswork. Observing eating patterns objectively like data makes it easier to know which habits need to change.

Changing How We Manage Health

Wearable devices can also monitor and manage chronic conditions or general health by keeping track of indicators like blood sugar, heart rate, and blood pressure. 80% of those living with a chronic condition track their health as do 61% of those without. Wearable devices make tracking significantly easier. Furthermore, data from the device can be shared with your healthcare provider to personalize and enhance their efforts.

Wearable devices can also help treat certain conditions. Implanted technologies similar to those used in smart glasses can help those with eye and vision issues such as macular degeneration, acquired blindness, glaucoma, and astigmatism. Meanwhile, some externally worn smart glasses act as miniature computers which reduce eyestrain.

Smart Glasses Used by Medical Professionals

Wearable devices are also transforming healthcare through their use by medical professionals. Not only can providers review data from wearable devices worn by patients to monitor health indicators, but they can also wear devices themselves to enhance care. Remote assistance software like smart glasses, in particular, have created a level of personalization and comprehensiveness for healthcare providers that were unimaginable 50 years ago.

Smart glasses make it virtually possible to be two places at once so access to specialists is suddenly no longer limited by geography. Using smart glasses, the specialist can observe the patient in real time while working remotely using real-time video streaming. Patients are relieved of the huge obstacle of traveling to doctors and can access experts for rare diseases and conditions. The benefits of smart glasses are not limited to working across long distances, however.

Smart Glasses Humanize Healthcare

Medical providers physically present with patients can also benefit from using smart glasses. By using real-time video streaming technology, doctors are able to relate with their patients more personally.

Dr. Laurie Rothman recently told mHealthIntelligence.com: “The biggest benefit right off is just being able to get the computer out of the visit for the most part when I’m seeing patients. Since we’ve been using electronic health records,.. one of the biggest disadvantages is that a lot of doctors and providers are staring at a computer screen because they’re trying to document what the patient is sharing, instead of having a face to face interaction.

Having smart glasses is now allowing me to put the computer aside and look at my patients while I am speaking with them. It’s a breath of fresh air. We’re able to take new technology to bring us more back to old-fashioned medicine.”

While it might seem wearing the smart glasses could make patients feel awkward or even depersonalized, Dr. Rothman reported that “overall – I would say 98 percent – reacted in a very positive manner. They were curious and offered questions. I had a very little negative reaction. Most people think it’s interesting, are very happy in using new technology, and appreciate that I’m focusing on them and not on documentation” through a computer screen. Ironically, smart glasses enhance the human touch of modern healthcare.”

Smart Glasses Revolutionize Surgery

Another highly promising use of smart glasses is to assist with surgery. The surgeon wearing smart glasses almost has x-ray vision where he can observe the patient in real time while also seeing them internally. The smart glasses can also convey vital signs so the surgeon has every bit of information possible immediately.

The New York Times recently reported on a lung surgeon at U.C.S.F., Dr. Pierre Theodore who wears smart glasses when he “performs minimally invasive surgery that requires the doctor to rely on imagery to guide the surgical instruments. [This way] Dr. Theodore can see the images from scans and the live images at the same time.

‘There’s relatively little shift of attention between seeing the patient in front of you and seeing critical information in your field of vision with these field service management software,’ he said. ‘I believe it can be and will be revolutionary.’

Life made Simple with Wearable Tech!

Whether used by consumers to track calories or by doctors to treat patients, wearable technology is changing how we understand and treat our bodies for the better. Remote access software are used to change our lifestyles by helping us with small reminders to using smart glasses while performing operations. They play a vital role in improving and enhancing our way of life.

Blitzz provides field service management software using augmented reality which is a powerful tool that enhances customer satisfaction and enables first-time fix rates.

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