ICT&health November 23, 2021
Wearables measure a wide range of metrics, providing insight into health and well-being, helping to conduct virtual clinical trials, informing about health threats even before the first symptoms appear, providing data for infectious diseases surveillance and chronic conditions management. With Friedrich Lämmel, CEO and co-founder of startup Thryve, we talk about how personal sensors change healthcare, connected health, data sharing and trust.
What health parameters can the most affordable smart devices and the most advanced and expensive consumer technologies measure?
Wearable technology has made significant progress in the last few years. The average amount of sensors per device tripled in less than a decade, which tremendously grew the data coverage of mass-market devices. All off-the-shelf wearables now enable a holistic...