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Title: Thinking Healthcare Wearables Strategy
Author : Havas Lynx
Release Date : January 01, 2014
Genre: Health & Fitness,Books,Health, Mind & Body,Science & Nature,Life Sciences,Professional & Technical,Engineering,Business & Personal Finance,Industries & Professions,Medical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 506 KB

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A lot of media excitement about wearables has focused on applications for lifestyle and fitness. Activity trackers such as Fitbit and Garmin’s vívofit have become a big hit with gadget lovers who want to quantify the steps they take, the hours they sleep, and the calories they consume. Google Glass, another high-profile wearable, is a hands-free, head-mounted mobile device that could have come straight out of science fiction. These lifestyle wearables are technically intriguing and answer the deepest desires of the Quantified Self movement (“self-knowledge through numbers”), but for most people they’re little more than optional “nice-to-haves.” In this paper we discuss the impact of wearables on healthcare.