1. Current Trends of
Wearable
Technology
Devices in
Clinical
Diagnostics
AWLAD HUSSAIN
Introduction to Health Informatics,
Ryerson University

2. AGENDA
• Introduction and Background
• What is Wearable Technology
• Benefits of Wearable Devices
• Devices and Top Tech Companies
• How Devices Work
• Uses of Devices in Diagnosis
• A Paradigm Shift in Healthcare
• Current Status
• New and Emerging Devices for Diagnosis
• Impact and Potentials
• Barriers and Recommendations
• Reference

3. You go to your doctor/ hospital. And you don’t
need to say a complaint!
Don't need to give history from the day you
born!
Doctor doesn't need to wait to start treatment
for hours or days for your test results!
You don’t need to worry about sky-high
expenses!
There will be no medical error...so
on...something amazing like this!
How would you
feel?
YES, WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY DEVICES HELP MAKE ALL THIS
POSSIBLE!

4. INTRODUCTION & BACKGROUND
• Roles of Health IT in diagnostic
process:
• Capturing information
• Clinical history and interview
• Physical exam
• Diagnostic testing results

5. WHAT IS WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY
• Wearable technology refers to information technology (IT) enabled devices
• Carried on the user’s body, such as the wrist, arm, or head
• Intended to facilitate data collection
• Additional source of patient data which may improve clinicians' ability to diagnose
• Collect data continuously as patients perform their daily chores
• Data usually recorded in a digital notebook demonstrating vital features of lifestyle and help in diagnosis
• First wearable and implantable device was a pacemaker in 1958

6. BENEFITS OF WEARABLE
DEVICES
• Continuous monitoring of individuals
• Proactive Healthcare
• Patients engaged in real-time
• Improved care and satisfaction
• Cost reduction

7. AVAILABLE
DEVICES

8. TOP TECH COMPANIES FOR
HEALTHCARE WEARABLE

9. HOW A
DEVICE
WORKS
Biocompatible materials and nanomaterials has led to the development of
implantable devices that enable diagnosis and prognosis through small
sensors and biomedical devices
Flexible and stretchable electronic devices have allowed implantable
systems
Driven by their own receiver, feature a signal processor, and are battery-
powered
Enabling them to operate as a “microcomputer”
Connect to other smart devices via Bluetooth, infrared, RFID and NFC
Used for remote and long-term patient monitoring

10. USES OF DEVICES IN DIAGNOSIS

11. A PARADIGM SHIFT IN HEALTHCARE
• Less Invasive test
• Less medical error/ diagnostic failure
• Reduce healthcare cost
• Strengthen Prevention
• Limit the amount of hospital or in-clinic visits
• Care would be transparent, personalized, and
trustworthy

12. CURRENT STATUS
• Market worth over $50 billion in 2019
• 526 million wearable users connected to the 4G network
in 2017
• The number will be double in 2022
• 90% of American consumers currently using a wearable
• More popular among women
• Adults younger than 55 are twice as likely to have used
such products than adults aged 55 and older.

13. NEW AND EMERGING DEVICES FOR DIAGNOSIS
Smart Ring Monitors Body Temperature, May Spot COVID Fever Early
Smart Textile Fibers to Measure Wearer’s Health
Smart Contact Lenses Measure Glucose, Deliver Drugs
MIT’s Comfortable Shirts Loaded with Body Sensors
Smart Jumpsuit Tracks Infant Movements to Spot Neurodevelopmental
Disorders
First Medical “Suckable” Measures Glucose in Newborns

14. IMPACT OF WEARABLES
• Source of Data
• Creates new opportunities, such as the development of
IoT sensing-based health monitoring and management
• New models
• Analyzing connection communities
• New mobile health applications
• For emergence of ML and AI

15. POTENTIALS OF WEARABLES
• Monitor mental condition
• More uses can be done for elderly
• Fall detection and prevention of
danger
• Personalized Healthcare
• Reducing Cost

16. BARRIERS AND CHALLENGES
CLINICIANS
EAGERNESS
QUALITY OF DATA COST SPECIALIZATION:
TOO MANY ONE-
TRICK DEVICES
SECURITY,
PRIVACY, AND
ACCESS TO DATA

17. RECOMMENDATIONS
Data precision
Multidisciplinary
collaboration
Need specific
technology
Strengthening
security of data
Affordable to
all

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