Healthcare & the Future of Data
By Greg Kahn
Emerging Tech Exchange
Founder & CEO
Published on August 15, 2023
When I turn my wrist to look at my Apple Watch, my eyes focus on health.
What was initially positioned as an iPhone accessory, even a luxury fashion item, has become a device for monitoring our heart rates, blood oxygen levels, and exercise activity.
The forthcoming Apple Watches will be doubling down on health, providing even deeper information about the user’s wellness in real-time. Enhanced notifications to emergency services such connecting fall detection directly with the users’ precise location. For example, an Apple Watch wearer who becomes injured while hiking in a remote forest would have their location immediately sent to emergency services even when no cell phone towers are nearby thanks to improved satellite-based geo-tagging.
The evolution of our connected devices can provide insights such as whether the user is pre-diabetic or if they are experiencing muscular challenges. It’s truly miraculous and almost definitely will save lives.
But despite improvements to the health care functions of smart devices, there remain hurdles to data sharing in the form of systems that don’t easily speak to each other as well as lingering consumer fears about privacy.
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Greg Kahn
Emerging Tech Exchange
Founder & CEO
