Technical, Regulatory, Economic, and Trust Issues Preventing Successful Integration of Sensors into the Mainstream Consumer Wearables Market

Jaime K Devine; Lindsay P Schwartz; Steven R Hursh

doi:10.3390/s22072731

Technical, Regulatory, Economic, and Trust Issues Preventing Successful Integration of Sensors into the Mainstream Consumer Wearables Market

Sensors (Basel). 2022 Apr 2;22(7):2731. doi: 10.3390/s22072731.

Authors

Jaime K Devine¹, Lindsay P Schwartz¹, Steven R Hursh^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Institutes for Behavior Resources, Inc., Baltimore, MD 21218, USA.
² Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.

Abstract

Sensors that track physiological biomarkers of health must be successfully incorporated into a fieldable, wearable device if they are to revolutionize the management of remote patient care and preventative medicine. This perspective article discusses logistical considerations that may impede the process of adapting a body-worn laboratory sensor into a commercial-integrated health monitoring system with a focus on examples from sleep tracking technology.

Keywords: economics; mHealth; remote patient monitoring; technology transfer; validation testing; wearables.

MeSH terms

Arrhythmias, Cardiac
Electrocardiography
Humans
Monitoring, Physiologic
Sleep
Wearable Electronic Devices*