Considerations for integrating wearables into the everyday healthcare practice

Dylan Powell; Alan Godfrey

doi:10.1038/s41746-023-00820-z

Considerations for integrating wearables into the everyday healthcare practice

NPJ Digit Med. 2023 Apr 22;6(1):70. doi: 10.1038/s41746-023-00820-z.

Authors

Dylan Powell¹, Alan Godfrey²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
² Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. alan.godfrey@northumbria.ac.uk.

Abstract

Wearable technologies are becoming ever more popular as suggested tools for use in modern medicine. Studies evidence their growing pragmatism and provision of objective data for a more informative and personalised approach to patient care. Yet many wearables are one dimensional, despite the underlying technology being common across a large array of tools. That is primarily due to the accompanying software, unmodifiable or black box-based scripts that generally lack accessibility or modification, meaning wearables may often get discarded. Use of wearables for sustainable healthcare needs careful consideration.

Publication types

Editorial