Technology has offered the rooms of an opportunities to wowed the world with amazing powerful gadgets that can comprises the potential to record heart rate, steps taken, calories expended, and other day to day activities.
The companies like Nike, Jawbone, Fitbit, and Apple have introduced and brought to market amazing wearable gadgets that one can not even think before. These gadgets are not an ordinary gadgets as it hold the potential to record patient behaviour who are suffering from chronic diseases like arthritis, asthma, cancer, COPD, diabetes etc with the help of trackers embedded in mobile applications.
According to the survey of Pew Foundation, 45% of US adults are suffering with at least one chronic disease but only 40% of adults track their health indicators. While only 19% of people with no chronic diseases use wearable devices to track their healthcare conditions.” So far this year $2.8 billion has been spent on wearable medical devices”.
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