Wearable sensors will transform the practice of medicine

While modern medicine has advanced in ways that would seem miraculous to our ancestors, one key characteristic has remained almost unchanged: The practice of medicine is largely reactive. People book an appointment with their doctor when they feel unwell. They visit urgent care when that nagging pain in their abdomen finally becomes too painful to handle, and they end up in the emergency room when they have trouble breathing.

Studies have shown that preventive medicine—the act of detecting and trying to avert potential health conditions before they begin—vastly improves patient outcomes. Now, several Caltech researchers are working to make preventive medicine more accessible through the development of wearable sensors—small, unobtrusive devices that can provide continuous real-time monitoring of biomarkers related to diabetes, stress, inflammation, heart disease, gout, fertility, and more.

The goal: to bring medical care to the patient instead of bringing the patient to the medical care. While a visit to a doctor’s office requires an appointment and is just a moment in time, a wearable sensor can monitor the health of a patient as long as it is worn, whether the patient is at home or at work, asleep or awake.

Read how researchers are detecting issues using wearable sensors in the article by Emily Velasco here.


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