Considerations for integrating wearables into the everyday healthcare practice

Dylan Powell, Alan Godfrey*

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Abstract

Wearable technologies are becoming ever more popular as suggested tools for use in modern medicine. Studies evidence their growing pragmatism and provision of objective data for a more informative and personalised approach to patient care. Yet many wearables are one dimensional, despite the underlying technology being common across a large array of tools. That is primarily due to the accompanying software, unmodifiable or black box-based scripts that generally lack accessibility
modification, meaning wearables may often get discarded. Use of wearables for sustainable healthcare needs careful consideration.
Original languageEnglish
Article number70
Pages (from-to)1-3
Number of pages3
Journalnpj Digital Medicine
Volume6
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 22 Apr 2023

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