Becker's Healthcare July 6, 2022
Smartwatches that track blood pressure and heart rate. Wearable fitness devices that measure physical activity. Portable meters that monitor blood glucose levels and cardiac health.
The data from all these digital tools can create the “21st-century bionic human,” who will have the “ability to accurately predict his or her health status and risk of disease,” John Halamka, MD, president of the Mayo Clinic Platform, wrote in a July 1 blog post with Paul Cerrato, senior research analyst and communications specialist.
Medicine can already rebuild damaged body parts, Dr. Halamka wrote, so now it looks to tech-enabled gizmos and applications that will quantify people’s physiological and biochemical indicators to anticipate — and prevent — future disease. “These ‘enhancements,’ combined with genomic...
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