Healthcare IT News May 29, 2020
Tammy Lovell

Report predicts shift away from wearables to video analytics and mobile platforms.

Contactless monitoring systems and smartphone health applications are playing a vital role in the war against COVID-19, a report has found.

According to the analysis by Frost & Sullivan, non-contact patient monitoring technologies are gravitating toward the use of video, sound analysis and mobile-based platforms incorporating advanced technologies such as machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms.

It predicts a shift away from wearable technology, which it says can be uncomfortable, expensive and have limited usage, in favour of non-contact technology which have the advantages of being multi-use and affordable.

The report, Advanced Non-contact Patient Monitoring Technologies: A New Paradigm in Healthcare Monitoring, is available as part of...

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