siliconindia | | JULY 20248Wearables have certainly come a long way from step and sleep tracking. Digital health devices do much more these days, they can detect irregular heartbeats, track glucose levels in real time, and even forecast seizures. This is technology that brings consumer gadgets and medical devices together, focusing not just on fitness but on preventive care and continuous health monitoring. These wearables therefore appear to empower these users by giving them very personal and actionable data regarding their health. In real-time, wearable devices generate data that could help revolutionize the concept of care delivered to patients for health providers in many areas, especially in decision making. While many challenges remain, like data accuracy, privacy issues, cost, and regulations, the potential of wearable technology in improving health and outcomes cannot be refuted.Ali Rizvi, National Sales Manager, Garmin India, says, "Smart watches, smart clothing, necklaces, pedometers, smart wristbands, clip-ons and other wearable devices have become an important part of healthcare industry that help us carry out a more active & healthy way of life. Wearable devices represent a huge opportunity for digital to disrupt the industry".Now, Let's Talk About How Wearables Are Changing Cardiovascular Care!During the last decade, wearable technology has grown-up vastly in the healthcare sector, opening up newer avenues of disease prevention and health management. Wearables have also shown very resourceful in cardiovascular care. Because CVD is of such huge factor in morbidity and mortality worldwide, it puts a greater burden on building innovative strategies geared toward bettering its prevention and management. Wearables are, by definition, devices in the form of smart watches, fitness trackers, or other medical-grade devices that have been quite in vogue among those wishing to bring about a change in their overall well-being and achieve better physical fitness. These devices are fitted with an array of sensors, including accelerometers, heart rate monitors, and electrocardiograms, which help users trace their activities with a fine line of control over parameters such as physical activity, sleep pattern, and heart rate variability. Moreover, wearable technology provides continuous monitoring of vital signs and allows them to detect risk factors for CVD and to take preventive measures. Wearables therefore offer a host of potential clinical applications that span from screening for arrhythmia in high-risk individuals to remote management for conditions like heart failure and peripheral artery disease. As such applications continue to increase, a multifaceted approach ought to be adopted regarding the collaboration among all key stakeholders toward the effective and safe integration of these technologies into routine clinical practice. Digital health technologies have given many advantages to individuals for self-monitoring and becoming more active in maintaining their cardiovascular health, which has also improved the patient-doctor relationship. Wearable devices are tools for digital medicine that leverage data from mobile sensors to provide insight into a host of health metrics related to PA, HR, heart rhythm, and sleep.Benefits of Wearable Devices for Cardiovascular CareMore and more people are contributing to wearable devices for health monitoring, wherein there is a rush in the usage of smart watches and fitness trackers all over. · Convenience: This confirms the convenience that one can monitor his heart health from the place of residence or even on the go. By the forms that include smartwatches, bands, earbuds, patches, and chest straps, these can easily be associated with the daily routine.These gadgets provide real-time feedback on heart health, which includes heart rate, heart rhythm, and blood pressure levels, among others.· Motivation and Accountability: Wearables can EDITORIAL EXCLUSIVEHOW ARE WEARABLES CHANGING CARDIOVASCULAR CARE?
< Page 7 | Page 9 >