VIDEO: Wearable Technology in Healthcare

wearable Health technology is one of the most interesting emerging Trends in US Healthcare if patient generated data can be directly synced to electronic health records then doctors can monitor um patient activity such as step counts or heart rates um without actually seeing the patients and they can spot Trends in their patient populations so there's huge potential for it to reduce Healthcare costs and really revolutionize how preventative medicine is carried out at the moment we studied wearable fitness trackers and smartphone apps and specifically we asked uh over 900 adults whether they track their weight diet or exercise using a smartphone app or digital Fitness tracker so only a quarter of Americans are currently using some kind of digital device to track that um about half of respondents said that they' be willing to use a fitness tracker if their physician provided it to them almost 60% of respondents said they would be more likely to track their health if they could receive lower health insurance premiums and we see that as a significant opportunity healthkit is probably going to push sort of wearable tracking into the mainstream um it's been really relegated just to the fitness Community but now that everyone with an iPhone automatically has has this capability epic and apple recently announced a partnership where um users of Apple's health kit mobile application can automatically have their data synced into epic's patient portals so if you are a patient at a hospital using epic um your data can automatically be uploaded and your physician can look at it before you come in and review uh your lifestyle your activity if you want to learn more about wearable Fitness or Trends in US Healthcare or learn about electronic medical records you can visit technologyadvice.com and check out our blog or our product selection tool

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