📱⏲️ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 #𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧!

🎯We are witnessing the wearable revolution -By 2021, $29bn was spent globally—more than half the amount spent on sporting goods!

In 2021 about 1in 4 Americans was estimated to own a smartwatch or a fitness tracker & 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 400𝐦 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐚 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 (𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬) 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐲 2026, up from 200m in 2020.

🎯There are more than 400,000 health and wellness apps on the Apple and Google app stores with 250 new ones added daily. Appetite for them is healthy, with around 5m app downloads per day. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 95% 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐝𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧 24 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬.

🎯 Recent review by IQVIA states that they are 384 wearable devices
marketed to consumers including wrist-worn fitness trackers, sports watches, to smart jewelry, sensor-bearing headsets, patches, straps, clip-ons & even clothes that monitor activity.

🎯 These devices measure a wide array of health variables, including
sleep, temperature, breathing, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, blood sugar and electrical activity of the heart.

🎯 Rockley Photonics Inc. which provides sensor technology to
big consumer and medical-device manufacturers, claims its newest
sensor can measure 𝐡𝐲𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐬𝐮𝐠𝐚𝐫, 𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐡𝐨𝐥, 𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 (𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠
𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐞𝐱𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐞), 𝐚𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 & blood pressure.

🎯 HumanFirst, maintains a catalogue of connected devices for remote patient monitoring & has identified 𝐡𝐲𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐬𝐮𝐠𝐚𝐫, 𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐡𝐨𝐥, 𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 (𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 1,200 𝐝𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 8,000 𝐩𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 & 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬.

𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐦𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤?
🎯 Apple watch has the highest accuracy for heart rate; Fitbit’ s devices had consistently good accuracy on step counts;, None of the devices was good at calorie counts, 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐛𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 30% 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬

🎯All devices struggle with accuracy for sleep tracking though Fitbit and Oura have had reasonable accuracy

🎯Fitbit’s devices identified cases of atrial fibrillation correctly 98% of
the time whereas Apple’s did so 89% of the time -comparing them is tricky, however because the studies differed on average age of participants
Quote of the article, "𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒎 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒅𝒐 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒂 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒆𝒅. 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒂 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎," says Liz Ashall-Payne CEO Orcha.

Thanks to Marc Sluijs Murray Aitken Matteo Berlucchi for their insights.

Excellent article by The Economist, #digitalhealth #artificialintelligence #innovation