Sophisticated Monitors Move into Homes; Inpatient and Home Care Merge

I have posted a number of notes abouthealth wearables and monitors (see, for example:Is Healthcare Ready to Embrace the Consumer"Wearable" Revolution?;AT&T Offers the LTE-M, Low-Powered Network for Uploading Wearable Health Data). These devices will have a major effect on both healthy consumers as well as the chronically ill. In the former case, wearables can be used to monitor daily activities and, using various types of descriptive, diagnostic, and predictive analytics, will guide consumers in their pursuit of wellness (see:Healthcare Will Contribute a Sizable Portion of Future Earnings for Apple). For the chronically ill, wearables will monitor them both during hospital stays and after they are discharged to their homes. A recent article discussed such a device that has now been approved by the FDA (see:A machine learning device, meant to monitor the chronically ill, moves into homes), Below is an excerpt from the article:A wearable device that uses machine learning to remotely track and analyze multiple vital signs has been cleared by the Food and Drug Administration, expanding the scope of home monitoring systems intended to keep chronically ill patients out of the hospital.Current Health...announced...it received clearance for an upper-arm wearable that measures a patient ’s respiration, pulse, oxygen saturation, temperature and mobility. The product is capable of delivering continual updates on a patient so doctors can intervene quickl...
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