Current State of Wearable Healthcare Technology
Jyotsna A. Patil, Shrirang N. Patil · 2024
Wearable medical technology has grown a lot and now offers useful ways to keep an eye on bodily and biological factors in real time. This essay gives an in-depth look at the present state of wearing electronics and sensors, with a focus on how they affect tracking in healthcare. Heart rate, body temperature, and blood pressure are all important physiological factors that show how healthy someone is. Sensors built into wearable technology can constantly check these factors, giving important information about a person's health. Adding biochemistry monitors to personal technology also makes it possible to keep an eye on biochemical signs like glucose, lactate, and cortisol. These signs are very important for controlling long-term conditions like diabetes, keeping track of how hard you are working out, and figuring out how stressed you are. As smart technology has improved, non-invasive and constant tracking solutions have been created. These make healthcare management easier and more efficient. Early discovery of health problems by these gadgets can help with quick treatment and personalized healthcare. The addition of data analytics and artificial intelligence to smart technology also makes them more useful by giving us more correct and useful information. Even with these improvements, there are still problems with getting smart health technology used by a lot of people. To make sure that smart devices can easily be added to healthcare systems, problems like data protection, dependability, and interoperability need to be fixed. In addition, healthcare workers, technology makers, and government bodies need to work together to make smart technology useful in clinical settings.