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Are Fitness Trackers the Future of Healthcare?

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday October 03 2019, @05:19AM   Printer-friendly
from the I'm-sure-insurance-companies-would-be-pleased dept.

upstart writes:

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Are fitness trackers the future of healthcare?

Imagine your fitness tracker vibrates on your wrist – but it’s not because you’ve reached your 10,000 steps goal for the day or because you’ve received an email. Instead, your tracker is warning you that your blood pressure is high, your doctor has seen the stats in real-time and they want you to de-stress. Or maybe an analysis of your sweat is showing you’re a little too dehydrated. Or maybe the air around you is full of allergens and could set off your asthma.

The sensors within our fitness trackers have improved greatly in recent years. We now have more accurate heart rate monitors, accelerometers to detect the smallest changes in movement and positioning, and even ECG sensors in devices like the Apple Watch, Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2 and Amazfit Verge 2 to flag up issues with our hearts.

But many experts believe this is just the beginning and soon our fitness trackers will be packed with an even wider range of sensors to collect data that could, potentially, save our lives, diagnose illnesses and keep our doctors constantly updated.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 05 2019, @01:17AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 05 2019, @01:17AM (#902891)

    > doctors work like slaves in a galley - in ER they work 24 hour shifts

    And why is this true? Something about the AMA limiting medical school class sizes? As people learn more about our health (information on the internet is part of this--for better or worse), the mystery and exclusivity of the medical profession is quickly waning.