Wearable ECG And Other Smart Medical Accessories

We discuss the various wearable medical devices that are helping patients worldwide track their vitals without much invasion

- Tushar Mehta

“Monitoring” has been imperative for medical procedures but patients subjected to this observation were clueless about the trite lingo. But, with the boom of technology, information comes handy and, people are more receptive as well as curious to learn about new technologies. Wearables allow users to be cognizant of their vital stats, transmit the same data to their physicians and slay down the number of visits to the clinic. Despite the opportunity of application, hesitation towards wearable accessories continues to prevail.

Smart Health Monitors increasingly penetrating healthcare market:

We speculate wearables mostly as devices with which technology zealots boast about their fitness, but a universe of devices is helping patients keep a close tab on their tender health. Compact and mobile, these wearable devices are being shoved with more and more sensors which record information for a wide gamut of human activities related to fitness, sleep and underlying medical conditions. While the cost of these health accessories is a big concern, clinical trials in first world countries are enabling physiologists to remotely access and analyze patient data.

Market is flouted by numerous prototypes: