Now January 6, 2020
In the United States, annual healthcare waste — from failure of care delivery to overtreatment — ranged from $760 to $935 billion, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association. But wearable healthcare technology is poised to overturn these trends. New laws that allow doctors to embrace innovations in wearable diagnostic and assistive devices could help usher in a new era precision medicine that reduces medical costs and saves thousands of lives.
“Studies have shown that folks using these types of devices are more engaged in their own health than those that are aren’t,” says Michael Wittman, program manager at Northrop Grumman Information Systems in McLean, Virginia.
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