The healthcare community is slowly taking steps towards becoming a more personalized and decentralized experience for patients, both new and old. From a consumer’s standpoint, FitBits and other intelligent watches are all the craze, and nearly every person has one wrapped around their wrist. Users can monitor their health statistics, set goals, and shed pounds as they work, all while wearing the resource on their person. Wearables are huge under the hospital roof as well, for they possess several benefits for patients, staff members, and administrative higher-ups as well.

What are Wearable Devices?

Wearable devices can monitor patients’ chronic conditions, track sleep/wake cycles, and remind patients to to take their medicine and eat regularly. All of the data that’s collected from these devices can then be converted into actionable input to help make those decisions on how to advise patients, especially when it comes to chronic diseases. Just take millennials for an example. They are able to allot trust and loyalty to various digital features and offerings, making themselves the digital natives of the generation.

The wide adoption of wearable technology can track certain stats to enable a huge amount of data, especially with the help of machine learning and AI. Wearable devices can predict potential health problems, before they arise, in preventative measures. Though many of these devices may come at a high cost, because they promise next-generation capabilities, but physiologically and biochemically, they can resolve real-world issues all in the palm of your hand or by the strap on your belt.