Senior Housing News March 14, 2022
Samsung sees health moving into the home, and the company believes there are huge opportunities in the older adult market.
Wearable devices like the ones Samsung offers are creating new ways for health care providers to collect information such as body composition, heart rate and sleep patterns — and therein lies a growing opportunity, according to Hon Pak, who is chief medical officer at Samsung Electronics.
“With wearables, particularly with the aging population, it’s a different way of engaging them than mobile devices,” he said during the SXSW 2022 conference, according to Fierce Healthcare. “This device on our wrist, it started out as a toy for measuring steps, and now it’s headed toward colliding with medical devices that are being...