MedCity News February 15, 2015
Eugene Borukhovich

The human body produces a staggering amount of data 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year (and 366 days in a leap year ?). We are only at the beginning of a journey to help us understand the impact of activities, sleep, temperature, perspiration and other data points of the human body, with over 100 different wearable devices available in today’s marketplace to monitor our health and fitness. The wearable marketplace is growing at a meteoric rate, estimated to grow from $7.1 billion in 2015 to $12.6 billion by 2018. Worldwide shipments of healthcare wearables were forecast to total 34 million units in 2015, up from 13 million in 2013.

With those facts in mind,...

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