Demerits and Impacts of Wearable Devices in Healthcare
Wearables devices are those devices that are worn on the human
body part for their specific purpose. Purpose may be related to
fashion, to track or analyze something, communicate or for health
purpose etc.
Wearable devices are available in different forms and sizes. We
are familiar with wearable devices like VR headset, Heartrate
monitor, fitness tracker, smartwatches and other gadgets.
While talking about wearable device it has its impact in different
fields like health, school, home etc. Wearable device offers a lot of
benefits in health care in present time. It helps to provide us
instant feedback of any unwanted health changes at real-time.
These devices keep records for sleep pattern, steps taken, heart
rate, calorie burnt etc. which are important key factors to be taken
care of in regular basis to obtain the good health. By the help of
these devices, User also can set goal related to health, keep
record and achieve the goal in more efficient manner. Even
doctors can take care of their patient from Remote health care
facilities saving their valuable time which means a single doctor
can handle a greater number of patients.
Not only taking care of health, this device can even save the
human life. Some wearable devices that saved the human life are
electronic skin patches, pacemakers etc. These devices are giving
new life to its user.
Although this kind of device offers a wide ranges of health
services it also has its demerits. Wearable medical devices
implanted to human body have the track record of every health
change in the body (physical & biological) from which medical
patient can be victim of data breach or even the privacy of the
patient can be breached. Design flaws of these devices can rely
the misinformation related to health. Security is the biggest
challenge in this kind of devices. Previously we have talked that
those pacemakers are saving the human life but those kind of
electronic wearable devices can be hacked which may lead to the
death of patient. And this kind of life saving gadgets have high
potential cost which means that they are not affordable at cheap
prices resulting to the limited number of its user. Not only at user
level also at manufacturing level, these technologies are
challenging task to build with high precision as it is related to the
healthcare sector which can’t be neglected.
Here, we have discussed about the Demerits and Impacts of
Wearable devices in brief.
References:
1. https://www.volersystems.com/blog/pros-and-cons-ofwearable-technology-in-healthcare
2. https://www.delveinsight.com/blog/pros-and-cons-ofwearable-devices
3. https://www.scnsoft.com/healthcare/medicaldevices/wearable#adoption
Prepared By Sudip Lamichhane