Using wearables to transform cancer care – and better equip clinicians

The use of wearable technology in day-to-day life is growing, but in healthcare it’s still a relatively new concept. Careology founder Paul Landau is hoping to change that.

When Landau’s wife Lucy was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2015, the pair were overwhelmed with the amount of information they had to remember, and the vital signs to stay on top of.

Having worked in wearable technology for most of his career – he founded fitness tracking company Fitbug in 2004 – Landau saw a wealth of opportunity to use wearables to improve the experience of cancer patients.

In 2017 Careology was born, a digital cancer care platform that uses wearable technology to monitor cancer patients from the comfort...