Smart Wearables Beating Your Heart

health

Mar 19

I am a big fan of wearables that give you delicate insights into the complicated status of your heart health. As we age, we become slower, and fatter, and more unsubstantial in what we are able to accomplish. If our wearables can help track us, and get us up, and moving — then, just perhaps, we will be able to enhance our lives with the help of some amazing technology.

Here’s a scientific article that details just some of the recommendations of what’s in store for us with our smart wearables:

Evidence supports the use of wearable devices in cardiovascular risk assessment and cardiovascular disease prevention, diagnosis and management, but large, well-designed trials are needed to establish their advantages.
Several challenges still hinder the widespread adoption of wearables in clinical practice, including a concern for device accuracy, patient privacy and cost, and how to separate actionable data from noise.
Overcoming these challenges requires that various stakeholders come together to develop comprehensive evaluation frameworks, pragmatic regulatory policies, clinical trials and medical education curricula.
A practical ‘ABCD’ guide for clinicians can facilitate the integration of these devices in routine clinical practice.

We are at the beginning of the smart wearable revolution that will, eventually, accurately influence, and annotate, our lives. The idea of these wearable miracle machines is to follow us throughout the day and night, making evaluations, and analysis, on our behalf, and then recording what happened as a continual test against our initial baseline health initiatives.

The article, concludes:

A new age of consumer-driven health has arrived, with great future benefits in cardiovascular disease prevention, diagnosis and management. Currently, several challenges hinder the widespread use of wearable technologies in clinical practice. As sensor and computing technologies continue to evolve, wearables will acquire more complex functions and become an integral part of our cardiovascular practice armamentarium. These devices must be regulated through comprehensive evaluation frameworks and adequate regulatory oversight policies to ensure safety and efficacy. Moreover, a practical ABCD clinician’s guide can facilitate the integration of these devices into the clinical workplace. As COVID-19 has launched us at rocket speed into a new era of remote and decentralized patient care, this is a golden opportunity to shake off our scepticism and embrace wearable technologies in our clinical practices for the benefit of our patients.

Another concern is one of economic equality, and access to better health for everyone. It isn’t cheap to purchase a smart wearable. Oftentimes, there are other inherent, bundled, added costs to the system like cellular connections, or batteries, or even a simple recharging of the device.

If we hope to move together into the future, we need to sacredly find a straight path forward that includes everyone in the new rude mechanicals of our day so that we may become more than just a wearable, and more than just a dataset — we need to evolve the thought that we are, in all reality, a tried and true weapon against death, and a gainful tryst against the feebleness of heart, and that we are indubitably a victory over the miasma of the mottled mind.