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Wearables and the Medical Revolution
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Wearable sensors are already impacting healthcare and medicine by enabling health monitoring outside of the clinic and prediction of health events. This paper reviews current and prospective wearable technologies and their progress toward clinical application. We describe technologies underlying common, commercially available wearable sensors and early-stage devices and outline research, when available, to support the use of these devices in healthcare. We cover applications in the following health areas: metabolic, cardiovascular and gastrointestinal monitoring; sleep, neurology, movement disorders and mental health; maternal, pre- and neo-natal care; and pulmonary health and environmental exposures. Finally, we discuss challenges associated with the adoption of wearable sensors in the current healthcare ecosystem and discuss areas for future research and development.
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This review surveys wearable sensors for healthcare, covering mechanical, physiological, and biochemical devices and applications from hospital monitoring to chronic disease, maternal, pulmonary, and mental health. It argues wearables can enable continuous longitudinal monitoring and prediction but require validation, standards, integration, and regulatory clarity before broad clinical adoption.
Key findings
- Wearables span mechanical, physiological, and biochemical sensors, with applications including glucose monitoring, arrhythmia detection, sleep, maternal/fetal care, pulmonary health, and environmental exposures.
- In a partnership with the UCSF Health eHeart study, Cardiogram’s DeepHeart platform used data from 14,011 wearable-equipped participants and detected Type II diabetes at 85% accuracy, atrial fibrillation at 97%, sleep apnea at 90%, and hypertension at 82%. A trial comparing AliveCor’s technology with routine care (n = 1001) resulted in a nearly fourfold increase in atrial fibrillation diagnosis.
- Other reported performance examples include Fitbit Charge post-ICU tachycardia detection with 69.5% sensitivity and 98.8% specificity (n = 50); Oura ring sleep detection with 96% sensitivity, 48% wake specificity, and 65/51/61% agreement for light/deep/REM sleep; Empatica Embrace detecting 94% of GTC seizures in 80 pediatric patients with less than one false alarm per 24 h; ADAMM asthma detection accuracy of 71% in 84 teens; and VitalConnect HealthPatch fall detection with 99% sensitivity and 100% specificity (n = 25).
- The global wearable devices market was anticipated to reach $19.5 billion in 2021; replacing one in five outpatient consultations and home health visits with digital visits was estimated to save $40 billion a year, and remote monitoring in patients with implantable cardiovascular devices (n = 43) decreased healthcare costs by 25%.
Methods
- Narrative review of current and prospective wearable technologies and their progress toward clinical application, organized by health areas: metabolic, cardiovascular, and gastrointestinal monitoring; sleep, neurology, movement disorders, and mental health; maternal, pre- and neo-natal care; and pulmonary health and environmental exposures.
- No primary data collection; the paper synthesizes published studies, commercially available devices, early-stage devices, and examples from the literature.
- No systematic search strategy, inclusion criteria, or meta-analysis is stated; the review also discusses regulatory oversight, economic impact, challenges, and future directions.
Limitations
- The paper states limitations including high device cost, cross-platform incompatibility, lack of data standards, setup and charging burden, variable acceptability and stigma, need for large clinical and field trials, unsubstantiated commercial claims, false negatives and false positives, inaccurate activity tracking, need for clinician training, and potential emotional burden or technology addiction.
- Evident from the text: as a narrative review, it lacks a systematic search or formal quality appraisal, and many cited studies are small, early-stage, feasibility, pilot, or not yet peer-reviewed; several device examples are commercial or under development.
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“To address this data deluge, we and others have recently developed algorithms to automatically process and interpret wearables data in order to present evidence-based health insights such as detection of inflammation or prediction of cardiometabolic health based on activity habits [40-43].”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Wearable devices used for general health management
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- Not checked yetcites [40] Li X, Dunn J, Salins D Digital health: tracking physiomes and activity using wearable biosensors reveals useful health-related information. PLoS Biol. 15(1), e2001402 (2017). 28081144 PMC5230763 •• The first deep phenotyping study that used wearable sensing to detect health events. source
- Not checked yetcites [41] Ballinger B, Hsieh J, Singh A DeepHeart: semi-supervised sequence learning for cardiovascular risk prediction. arXiv (2018). https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.02511
- Not checked yetcites [42] Lim WK, Davila S, Teo JX Beyond fitness tracking: The use of consumer-grade wearable data from normal volunteers in cardiovascular and lipidomics research. PLoS Biol. 16(2), e2004285 (2018). 29485983 PMC5828350 source
- Not checked yetcites [43] Price ND, Magis AT, Earls JC A wellness study of 108 individuals using personal, dense, dynamic data clouds. Nat. Biotechnol 35(8), 747– 756 (2017). 28714965 PMC5568837 source
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“A semi-supervised method that reduces the amount of labeled wearables data needed for training digital biomarker models by tenfold was developed to address this challenge.”
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- Not checked yetcites [41] Ballinger B, Hsieh J, Singh A DeepHeart: semi-supervised sequence learning for cardiovascular risk prediction. arXiv (2018). https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.02511
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“Wearables have been successful in detecting OSA in a variety of ways, including with personalized machine learning algorithms based on similarity to other OSA patients (detection accuracies between 90 and 93.6%) [41,87].”
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- Not checked yetcites [41] Ballinger B, Hsieh J, Singh A DeepHeart: semi-supervised sequence learning for cardiovascular risk prediction. arXiv (2018). https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.02511
- Not checked yetcites [87] Wu H-T, Wu J-C, Huang P-C Phenotype-based and self-learning inter-individual sleep Apnea screening with a level IV monitoring system. arXiv (2018). https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.09706 PMC6036126 30013479
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“Tachycardia detection had 69.5% sensitivity and 98.8% specificity [22].”
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- Not checked yetcites [22] Kroll RR, Mckenzie ED, Boyd JG Use of wearable devices for post-discharge monitoring of ICU patients: a feasibility study. J. Intensive Care 5, 64 (2017). 29201377 PMC5698959 source
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“Some digital biomarkers have been found to outperform traditional clinical methods, for example, for arrhythmia detection, because of their ability to continuously monitor patients outside of the clinic.”
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“Specificity in detecting wake was 48%.”
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- Not checked yetcites [35] De Zambotti M, Rosas L, Colrain IM, Baker FC. The sleep of the ring: comparison of the OURA sleep tracker against polysomnography. Behav. Sleep Med doi: 10.1080/15402002.2017.1300587 (2017) (Epub ahead of print). PMC6095823 28323455 source
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“Encouragingly, using only measurements from a consumer smart watch, we were able to predict clinical measurements of inflammation, infection and insulin sensitivity status based only on measurements from a consumer smart watch [40].”
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- Not checked yetcites [40] Li X, Dunn J, Salins D Digital health: tracking physiomes and activity using wearable biosensors reveals useful health-related information. PLoS Biol. 15(1), e2001402 (2017). 28081144 PMC5230763 •• The first deep phenotyping study that used wearable sensing to detect health events. source
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“In a multisite retrospective study of 172,726 ED visits, e-triage predictions had areas under the receiver operating characteristic curve ranging from 0.73 to 0.92.”
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- Not checked yetcites [53] Levin S, Toerper M, Hamrock E Machine-learning-based electronic triage more accurately differentiates patients with respect to clinical outcomes compared with the emergency severity index. Ann. Emerg. Med doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2017.08.005 (2017) (Epub ahead of print). 28888332 source
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“LiveVest showed comparable outcomes to implantable cardiac devices in a 3-year study (n = 3569) with acute event survival at 99.2% [38].”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Wearable biosensors revolutionizing specific fields of healthcare outside of the hospital & clinic > Metabolic, cardiovascular & gastrointestinal health
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- Not checked yetcites [38] Chung MK, Szymkiewicz SJ, Shao M Aggregate national experience with the wearable cardioverter-defibrillator: event rates, compliance, and survival. J. Am. College Cardiol 56(3), 194– 203 (2010). PMC2962668 20620738 source
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“Similar to PSG, ‘deep sleep’ detected with the Oura ring was negatively correlated with advancing age [35].”
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- Not checked yetcites [35] De Zambotti M, Rosas L, Colrain IM, Baker FC. The sleep of the ring: comparison of the OURA sleep tracker against polysomnography. Behav. Sleep Med doi: 10.1080/15402002.2017.1300587 (2017) (Epub ahead of print). PMC6095823 28323455 source
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“All are wearable but invasive to some extent (through a subdermal needle or flexible filament insertion).”
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“A recent trial comparing AliveCor’s technology with routine care (n = 1001) resulted in a nearly fourfold increase in atrial fibrillation diagnosis [15].”
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- Not checked yetcites [15] Halcox JPJ, Wareham K, Cardew A Assessment of remote heart rhythm sampling using the AliveCor heart monitor to screen for atrial fibrillation: the REHEARSE-AF study. Circulation 136(19), 1784– 1794 (2017). 28851729 source
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“In a study of 80 pediatric patients with varying degrees of epilepsy, Embrace detected 94% of GTC seizures with less than one false alarm per 24-h period [20].”
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- Not checked yetcites [20] Poh MZ, Loddenkemper T, Reinsberger C Convulsive seizure detection using a wrist-worn electrodermal activity and accelerometry biosensor. Epilepsia 53(5), e93– e97 (2012). 22432935 source
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“To explore the use of wearable devices to detect drowsiness, one recent pilot study (n = 10) used a single-channel electroencephalogram and IMU sensor to detect five different levels of drowsiness with an average of 95.2% accuracy [91].”
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- Not checked yetcites [91] Kartsch VJ, Benatti S, Schiavone PD, Rossi D, Benini L. A sensor fusion approach for drowsiness detection in wearable ultra-low-power systems. Inform. Fusion 43, 66– 76 (2018). source
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“This device has also been successful for pressure-offloading alerts to prevent diabetic foot ulcers, which cost the US$81.7 billion in 2012 [104,105].”
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- Not checked yetcites [104] Rice JB, Desai U, Cummings AKG, Birnbaum HG, Skornicki M, Parsons NB. Burden of diabetic foot ulcers for medicare and private insurers. Diabetes Care 37(3), 651– 658 (2014). 24186882 source
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“A study on the relationship between mood and physical activity using wearable actigraphs (n = 85) showed that distinct activity patterns correspond with worsening depressive symptoms [96].”
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- Not checked yetcites [96] Kim J, Nakamura T, Kikuchi H, Sasaki T, Yamamoto Y. Co-variation of depressive mood and locomotor dynamics evaluated by ecological momentary assessment in healthy humans. PLoS ONE 8(9), e74979 (2013). 24058642 PMC3773004 source
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“By tracking additional metrics like diurnal activity and circadian amplitude and dysregulation using wearable sensors, researchers could distinguish BD and non-BD conditions, such as ADHD, with 83% accuracy (92% specificity and 64% sensitivity) [98].”
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- Not checked yetcites [98] Faedda GL, Ohashi K, Hernandez M Actigraph measures discriminate pediatric bipolar disorder from attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and typically developing controls. J. Child Psychol. Psychiatry. 57(6), 706– 716 (2016). 26799153 PMC4873411 source
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“Bipolar Disorder (BD) mood states including depression, mixed, mania and euthymia were accurately classified (68–85%) using a support vector machine trained on features of heart rate variability and previous mood (n = 8) [97].”
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- Not checked yetcites [97] Gentili C, Valenza G, Nardelli M Longitudinal monitoring of heartbeat dynamics predicts mood changes in bipolar patients: a pilot study. J. Affect. Disord 209, 30– 38 (2017). 27870943 source
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“In our recent study monitoring physiological changes using wearables during flight, we found that SpO2 directly corresponds to drowsiness level [40].”
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- Not checked yetcites [40] Li X, Dunn J, Salins D Digital health: tracking physiomes and activity using wearable biosensors reveals useful health-related information. PLoS Biol. 15(1), e2001402 (2017). 28081144 PMC5230763 •• The first deep phenotyping study that used wearable sensing to detect health events. source
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“New devices that promise to change the current paradigm of hypertension monitoring use either inflating wristband cuffs (e.g., Omron HeartGuide, currently undergoing clinical testing) or optical pulse wave-based metrics of BP [75,76].”
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- Not checked yetcites [75] Solà J, Proença M, Braun F Continuous non-invasive monitoring of blood pressure in the operating room: a cuffless optical technology at the fingertip. Curr. Dir. Biomed. Eng 2(1), 267– 271 (2016). source
- Not checked yetcites [76] Mukkamala R, Hahn J-O, Inan OT Toward ubiquitous blood pressure monitoring via pulse transit time: theory and practice. IEEE Transact. Biomed. Eng 62(8), 1879– 1901 (2015). PMC4515215 26057530 source
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“G-tech (Mountain View, CA, USA) takes a different approach to gastric myoelectric activity monitoring via electrodes that measure motor activity of the stomach, small intestine and colon [24,25].”
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- Not checked yetcites [24] G-Tech Medical. Current Studies (2018). www.gtechmedical.com/clinical-studies.php
- Not checked yetcites [25] Dua MM, Malhotra L, Navalgund AR, Axelrod S, Triadafilopoulos G, Visser B. Monitoring of gastric myoelectric activity after pancreaticoduodenectomy. Gastroenterology 152(5), S1293– S1294 (2017). 30048596 source
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“The Gastrointestinal Logic AbStats system (CA, USA) provides real-time digestive telemetry via noninvasive vibration and sound sensing to assess postsurgery GI tract re-engagement [23].”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Wearable biosensors revolutionizing specific fields of healthcare outside of the hospital & clinic > Metabolic, cardiovascular & gastrointestinal health
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- Not checked yetcites [23] Spiegel BM, Kaneshiro M, Russell MM Validation of an acoustic gastrointestinal surveillance biosensor for postoperative ileus. J. Gastrointest. Surg 18(10), 1795– 1803 (2014). 25091837 source
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“The system senses and converts pressure produced on the insole during walking to the vest with a built-in vibrotactile array to re-teach multiple sclerosis patients to walk (n = 7, 16 weeks) [33].”
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- Not checked yetcites [33] Vienneau J, Bauman J, Nigg S, Nigg BM, Jarvis SE. Investigating the effects of the SurroGait Rx™ device on postural stability, gait, and MSIS-29 outcomes in people with multiple sclerosis. Biomed. Open Access J. Med. Clin. Res 2(1) (2018).
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“Using physiological and movement metrics from a smartwatch to infer outburst patterns, real-time, self-regulation exercises are sent as smartwatch notifications as a just-in-time intervention.”
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- Not checked yetcites [99] Torrado JC, Gomez J, Montoro G. Emotional self-regulation of individuals with autism spectrum disorders: smartwatches for monitoring and interaction. Sensors (Basel) 17(6), 1359 (2017). 28604607 PMC5492838 source
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“Integration of wearables data in CDS can improve their utility and outcomes.”
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“Diminished motor-skill coordination from lack of sleep leads to accidents and injury, and chronic sleep deprivation is linked to chronic illness such as heart disease, obesity, diabetes and depression [85].”
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- Not checked yetcites [85] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Sleep and sleep disorders (2017). www.cdc.gov/sleep/aboutus.html
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“Wearable sensors show promise for monitoring sleep and related outcomes.”
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“Artificial intelligence platforms can learn and predict effective interventions for an individual using a combination of personal historical data and population-level data to optimize treatment type and timing.”
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“Mobile apps provide a means to more accurately record symptoms (e.g., depressive mood, anxious mood or fatigue) through real-time assessments that can be administered outside of the clinic and accurate recall and time of recording [94,95].”
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- Not checked yetcites [94] Runyan JD, Steenbergh TA, Bainbridge C, Daugherty DA, Oke L, Fry BN. A smartphone ecological momentary assessment/intervention ‘app’ for collecting real-time data and promoting self-awareness. PLoS ONE 8(8), e71325 (2013). 23977016 PMC3743745 source
- Not checked yetcites [95] Shiffman S, Stone AA, Hufford MR. Ecological momentary assessment. Annu. Rev. Clin. Psychol. 4, 1– 32 (2008). 18509902 source
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“Wearables may also differentiate between disorders that have shared symptoms which may cause delays in diagnosis or treatment, imprecise treatment or misdiagnosis (e.g., hyperactivity shared by BD and ADHD).”
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“As described above, there are already several findings to support the use of wearable sensors combined with tailored algorithms for continuous, longitudinal monitoring, for example, for detection of abnormal heart conditions, hypertension, diabetes, for example (Figure 1C).”
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“Toward the inclusion of multiple sensors to improve the accuracy of pulmonary disease efforts, low-power solutions for integrating personal ozone exposure and volatile organic compound measures are beginning to appear [127].”
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- Not checked yetcites [127] Dieffenderfer J, Goodell H, Mills S Low-power wearable systems for continuous monitoring of environment and health for chronic respiratory disease. IEEE J. Biomed. Health Inform 20(5), 1251– 1264 (2016). 27249840 PMC5124429 source
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“Leth et al. demonstrated that step counts are most accurate at slow walking speeds [145].”
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- Not checked yetcites [145] Leth S, Hansen J, Nielsen OW, Dinesen B. Evaluation of commercial self-monitoring devices for clinical purposes: results from the future patient trial, Phase I. Sensors (Basel) 17(1), 211 (2017). 28117736 PMC5298782 source
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“Additional benefits of wearable sensors in the field setting include their applicability in environments where rapid medical care is needed and often not readily available, for example, at the scene of accidents, in military settings, athletics and in resource-constrained environments (Figure 2) [36,138-140].”
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- Not checked yetcites [36] O’Connor KL, Rowson S, Duma SM, Broglio SP. Head-impact-measurement devices: A systematic review. J. Athl. Train 52(3), 206– 227 (2017). 28387553 PMC5384819 source
- Not checked yetcites [138] Merrell AJ, Christensen WF, Seeley MK, Bowden AE, Fullwood DT. Nano-composite foam sensor system in football helmets. Ann. Biomed. Eng 45(12), 2742– 2749 (2017). 28884239 source
- Not checked yetcites [139] King DA, Hume PA, Gissane C, Clark TN. Similar head impact acceleration measured using instrumented ear patches in a junior rugby union team during matches in comparison with other sports. J. Neurosurg. Pediatr 18(1), 65– 72 (2016). 26942267 source
- Not checked yetcites [140] Liu B, Medda A, Woods D, Phelps S, Fain W. The integrated blast effects sensor suite: a rapidly developed, complex, system of systems. Mil. Med 180(Suppl. 3), 195– 200 (2015). 25747653 source
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“The Bloomlife Smart Pregnancy Tracker (CA, USA), a wearable device for tracking contractions in the third trimester of pregnancy, was shown to have an 87% success rate in predicting delivery within 24-h using electrohysterography and HR [18,120].”
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- Not checked yetcites [18] Altini M, Rossetti E, Rooijakkers M Combining electrohysterography and heart rate data to detect labour. Presented at: Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI), 2017 IEEE EMBS International Conference Orlando-, FL, USA (16-19 February 2017).
- Not checked yetcites [120] Altini M, Rossetti E, Rooijakkers M 762: remote labour detection using maternal electrohysterography and heart rate data acquired with a wearable sensor. Am. J. Obstet. Gynecol 216(1), S441– S442 (2017). source
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“Wearable sensors have been highly successful in fall detection [50,106,107].”
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- Not checked yetcites [50] Narasimhan R. Skin-contact sensor for automatic fall detection. Presented at: Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2012 Annual International Conference of the IEEE. CA, USA (28 August-1 September 2012). 23366814
- Not checked yetcites [106] Gia TN, Sarker VK, Tcarenko I Energy efficient wearable sensor node for IoT-based fall detection systems. Microprocess. Microsyst 56, 34– 46 (2018). source
- Not checked yetcites [107] Ojetola O, Gaura EI, Brusey J. Fall detection with wearable sensors–safe (smart fall detection). Presented at: Intelligent Environments (IE), 2011 7th International Conference. Nottingham, UK, (25-28 July 2011).
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“New and extremely novel wearable sensors are being developed that build upon movement, physiological and biochemical sensors in existence to improve disease detection and prognostication through changes in physiology over time or as a result of a specific treatment or intervention.”
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“A study on VitalConnect’s HealthPatch wearable found that a tri-axial accelerometer worn at any location of a participant’s body, and in any orientation, could detect falls with a sensitivity of 99% and specificity of 100% (n = 25) [50].”
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- Not checked yetcites [50] Narasimhan R. Skin-contact sensor for automatic fall detection. Presented at: Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2012 Annual International Conference of the IEEE. CA, USA (28 August-1 September 2012). 23366814
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“The large number of potentially important environmental exposures makes developing a single ‘exposome’ device challenging [126].”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Wearable biosensors revolutionizing specific fields of healthcare outside of the hospital & clinic > Pulmonary health & environmental exposures
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- Not checked yetcites [126] Asimina S, Chapizanis D, Karakitsios S Assessing and enhancing the utility of low-cost activity and location sensors for exposure studies. Environ. Monit. Assess 190(3), 155 (2018). 29464404 source
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“If wearables were to replace even a few of the many costly, gold standard tests and services mentioned in this review, it becomes clear that this kind of combined savings could effectively reduce much of the healthcare burden.”
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“In a recent study of 91 women, a significant increase of the fertile-window sleeping pulse rate compared with the menstrual phase (an average of 2.1 beat-per-minute) measured via PPG was found [17].”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Wearable biosensors revolutionizing specific fields of healthcare outside of the hospital & clinic > Maternal, pre- & neo-natal care
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- Not checked yetcites [17] Shilaih M, Clerck V, Falco L, Kubler F, Leeners B. Pulse rate measurement during sleep using wearable sensors, and its correlation with the menstrual cycle phases, a prospective observational study. Sci. Rep 7(1), 1294 (2017). 28465583 PMC5431053 • Demonstrates that traditional methods of clinical measurements are insufficient to capture temporal and cyclical biological variation. source
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“Replacing just one in five outpatient consultations and home health visits with digital visits would alone save $40 billion a year in healthcare costs [132].”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Regulatory oversight & economic impact
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- Not checked yetcites [132] Atluri V, Cordina J, Mango P, Velamooret S. How tech-enabled consumers are reordering the healthcare landscape. McKinsey & Company, (2016). www.mckinsey.com/industries/healthcare-systems-and-services/our-insights/how-tech-enabled-consumers-are-reordering-the-healthcare-landscape
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“Several devices that have been recently approved by the FDA or that are currently undergoing FDA approval have the potential to dramatically change healthcare landscape given their potential for use in and out of the clinic for health and disease management.”
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“Such devices have caused frustration in the pediatric medical community due to unsubstantiated claims that may encourage parents to use these devices to monitor infants for medical conditions such as sudden infant death syndrome and potentially deliver unecessary or even harmful interventions [123].”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Wearable biosensors revolutionizing specific fields of healthcare outside of the hospital & clinic > Maternal, pre- & neo-natal care
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- Not checked yetcites [123] Moon RY, Task Force on Sudden Infant Death S. SIDS and other sleep-related infant deaths: evidence base for 2016 updated recommendations for a safe infant sleeping environment. Pediatrics 138(5) pii: e20162940 (2016). 27940805 source
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“In a recent validation study, 84 teens between the ages of 13 and 17 were monitored for 1 week during which the ADAMM device collected audio data to assess the number of cough events, ultimately demonstrating an asthma detection accuracy of 71% [26].”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Wearable biosensors revolutionizing specific fields of healthcare outside of the hospital & clinic > Pulmonary health & environmental exposures
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- Not checked yetcites [26] Rhee H, Belyea MJ, Sterling M, Bocko MF. Evaluating the validity of an automated device for asthma monitoring for adolescents: correlational design. J. Med. Internet Res 17(10), e234 (2015). 26475634 PMC4704980 source
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“Mechanical properties of soft tissues were recently monitored via wearables to determine spatiotemporal changes in viscoelasticity of basal cell carcinoma lesions [147].”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Challenges & future directions
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- Not checked yetcites [147] Dagdeviren C, Shi Y, Joe P Conformal piezoelectric systems for clinical and experimental characterization of soft tissue biomechanics. Nat. Mater 14(7), 728– 736 (2015). 25985458 source
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“Inaccuracy of activity trackers may also lead individuals to overestimate their level of physical activity, limiting their effectiveness for lifestyle interventions [142,143].”
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- Not checked yetcites [142] Wallen MP, Gomersall SR, Keating SE, Wisloff U, Coombes JS. Accuracy of heart rate watches: implications for weight management. PLoS ONE 11(5), e0154420 (2016). 27232714 PMC4883747 source
- Not checked yetcites [143] Dooley EE, Golaszewski NM, Bartholomew JB. Estimating accuracy at exercise intensities: a comparative study of self-monitoring heart rate and physical activity wearable devices. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 5(3), e34 (2017). 28302596 PMC5374271 source
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“With the global wearable devices market anticipated to reach $19.5 billion in 2021 [131], wearable technology has the momentum to dramatically alter our current healthcare economics landscape.”
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- Not checked yetcites [131] Dangi RT. Wearable medical devices: technologies and global markets 2018. (2017) www.reportlinker.com/p05285115/Wearable-Medical-Devices-Technologies-and-Global-Markets.html
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“There are several limitations to the use of wearable technology in healthcare (Figure 2D).”
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“In a study involving patients with implantable cardiovascular devices (n = 43), remote monitoring decreased healthcare costs for those patients by 25% [133].”
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- Not checked yetcites [133] Costa PD, Reis AH, Rodrigues PP. Clinical and economic impact of remote monitoring on the follow-up of patients with implantable electronic cardiovascular devices: an observational study. Telemed. J E Health 19(2), 71– 80 (2013). 23336734 source
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“studies show that remote monitoring and telemedicine-based approaches greatly improve care access for women with newborns [116-118].”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Wearable biosensors revolutionizing specific fields of healthcare outside of the hospital & clinic > Maternal, pre- & neo-natal care
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- Not checked yetcites [116] Dietz PM, Vesco KK, Callaghan WM Postpartum screening for diabetes after a gestational diabetes mellitus–affected pregnancy. Obstet. Gynecol 112(4), 868– 874 (2008). 18827130 source
- Not checked yetcites [117] Vesco KK, Dietz PM, Bulkley J A system-based intervention to improve postpartum diabetes screening among women with gestational diabetes. Am. J. Obstet. Gynecol 207(4), 283. e281– 283. e286 (2012). 23021689 source
- Not checked yetcites [118] Nicklas JM, Zera CA, Seely EW, Abdul-Rahim ZS, Rudloff ND, Levkoff SE. Identifying postpartum intervention approaches to prevent Type 2 diabetes in women with a history of gestational diabetes. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 11, 23 (2011). 21435246 PMC3076295 source
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“Studies demonstrate that the wearable chest device, ADAMM, can be used to track adolescent asthma [26-28].”
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- Not checked yetcites [26] Rhee H, Belyea MJ, Sterling M, Bocko MF. Evaluating the validity of an automated device for asthma monitoring for adolescents: correlational design. J. Med. Internet Res 17(10), e234 (2015). 26475634 PMC4704980 source
- Not checked yetcites [27] Rhee H, Miner S, Sterling M, Halterman JS, Fairbanks E. The development of an automated device for asthma monitoring for adolescents: methodologic approach and user acceptability. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2(2), e27 (2014). 25100184 PMC4114416 source
- Not checked yetcites [28] Sterling M, Rhee H, Bocko M. Automated cough assessment on a mobile platform. J. Med. Eng (2014). www.hindawi.com/journals/jme/2014/951621/cta/ PMC4264627 25506590 source
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“Several research groups have recently developed mechanically flexible and fully integrated wearable sweat sensors (in wristband, temporary tattoo, eyeglasses, mouthguard) for analysis of biofluid metabolites and electrolytes (e.g., glucose, lactate, sodium, potassium) and pH sensing [156-160].”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Challenges & future directions
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- Not checked yetcites [156] Gao W, Emaminejad S, Nyein HYY Fully integrated wearable sensor arrays for multiplexed in situ perspiration analysis. Nature 529(7587), 509– 514 (2016). 26819044 PMC4996079 source
- Not checked yetcites [157] Dang W, Manjakkal L, Navaraj WT, Lorenzelli L, Vinciguerra V, Dahiya R. Stretchable wireless system for sweat pH monitoring. Biosens. Bioelectron. 107, 192– 202 (2018). 29471280 source
- Not checked yetcites [158] Sempionatto JR, Nakagawa T, Pavinatto A Eyeglasses based wireless electrolyte and metabolite sensor platform. Lab Chip 17(10), 1834– 1842 (2017). 28470263 PMC5507201 source
- Not checked yetcites [159] Jia W, Bandodkar AJ, ValdéS-Ramırez G Electrochemical tattoo biosensors for real-time noninvasive lactate monitoring in human perspiration. Analytical Chemistry 85(14), 6553– 6560 (2013). 23815621 source
- Not checked yetcites [160] Kim J, Imani S, De Araujo WR Wearable salivary uric acid mouthguard biosensor with integrated wireless electronics. Biosens. Bioelectron 74, 1061– 1068 (2015). 26276541 PMC4718709 source
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“Kulkarni et al. developed a rapid (down to 0.1 s) and sensitive (down to 1 part per billion) nanoelectric graphene vapor sensor that can continuously monitor a wide range of vapor analytes (e.g., nitric oxide, oxygen) from breath or the environment to monitor for illness or harmful environmental exposures [150,151].”
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- Not checked yetcites [150] Kulkarni GS, Zang W, Zhong Z. Nanoelectronic heterodyne sensor: a new electronic sensing paradigm. Acc. Chem. Res 49(11), 2578– 2586 (2016). 27668314 source
- Not checked yetcites [151] Kulkarni GS, Reddy K, Zhong Z, Fan X. Graphene nanoelectronic heterodyne sensor for rapid and sensitive vapour detection. Nat. Commun 5, 4376 (2014). 24999712 source
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“The need for off-site analysis and replacement devices or device cartridges has posed a limitation for longitudinal studies using exposome devices.”
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“Wearable systems enabling stimulus-induced drug delivery (with the stimulus being mechanical changes or signals based on biosensor data analysis) that enable a dose- and spatiotemporally controlled sustained release of therapeutics have been recently explored [163].”
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- Not checked yetcites [163] Lu Y, Sun W, Gu Z. Stimuli-responsive nanomaterials for therapeutic protein delivery. J. Control. Release 194, 1– 19 (2014). 25151983 PMC4330094 source
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“The lack of publicly available evidence supporting the safety, accuracy, effectiveness or role of these monitors hinders their use in clinical and healthcare settings.”
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“There are some exposome devices, however, that are beginning to address that [155].”
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- Not checked yetcites [155] National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Director’s report on institute activities to the 142nd meeting of the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (2018). www.niaaa.nih.gov/about-niaaa/our-work/advisory-council/directors-reports-council/niaaa-directors-report-institute-12
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“Shcherbina et al. demonstrated that most wrist-worn devices adequately measure HR in laboratory-based activities, but poorly estimate energy expenditure and caution the use of those measurements as part of health improvement programs [144].”
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- Supportedcites [144] Shcherbina A, Mattsson CM, Waggott D Accuracy in wrist-worn, sensor-based measurements of heart rate and energy expenditure in a diverse cohort. J. Pers. Med 7(2), 3 (2017). 28538708 PMC5491979 source
The Abstract states that most wrist-worn devices adequately measured heart rate during laboratory-based activities but poorly estimated energy expenditure, and it advises caution when using energy-expenditure measurements in health improvement programs. The Conclusions likewise report acceptable heart-rate error in most settings but unacceptable energy-expenditure estimates for every device tested. (LLM, conf=0.95)
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“Wearables that are most commonly related to clinical applications include biochemical sensors.”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Typical wearable devices with applications in health
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“The first continuous glucose monitor (CGM) for retrospective patient analysis (MiniMed) earned FDA approval in 1999.”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Wearable biosensors revolutionizing specific fields of healthcare outside of the hospital & clinic > Metabolic, cardiovascular & gastrointestinal health
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“The Oura ring (FIN) compared with polysomnography had a 96% sensitivity to detect sleep, and agreement of 65, 51 and 61%, in detecting ‘light sleep’, ‘deep sleep’ and REM sleep, respectively.”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Wearable biosensors revolutionizing specific fields of healthcare outside of the hospital & clinic > Sleep, neurology, mental health & movement disorders
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- Not checked yetcites [35] De Zambotti M, Rosas L, Colrain IM, Baker FC. The sleep of the ring: comparison of the OURA sleep tracker against polysomnography. Behav. Sleep Med doi: 10.1080/15402002.2017.1300587 (2017) (Epub ahead of print). PMC6095823 28323455
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“The leading CGMs on market today are Dexcom (CA, USA), Medtronic (MN, USA) and Abbott (IL, USA) devices [2-5,19,31].”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Wearable biosensors revolutionizing specific fields of healthcare outside of the hospital & clinic > Metabolic, cardiovascular & gastrointestinal health
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- Not checked yetcites [2] Boscari F, Galasso S, Acciaroli G Head-to-head comparison of the accuracy of Abbott FreeStyle Libre and Dexcom G5 mobile. Nutr. Metab. Cardiovasc. Dis 28(4), 425– 427 (2018). 29502924
- Not checked yetcites [3] Thompson H, Lunt H, Fleckney C, Soule S. Insulin degludec overdose in an adolescent with Type 1 diabetes: proactive management including monitoring using the Freestyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system. Endocrinol. Diabetes Metab. Case Rep doi: 10.1530/EDM-18-0044 (2018) (Epub ahead of print). PMC5987182 29887987
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- Not checked yetcites [19] Heinemann L, Freckmann G, Ehrmann D Real-time continuous glucose monitoring in adults with Type 1 diabetes and impaired hypoglycaemia awareness or severe hypoglycaemia treated with multiple daily insulin injections (HypoDE): a multicentre, randomised controlled trial. Lancet 391(10128), 1367– 1377 (2018). 29459019 source
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“VitalConnect (CA, USA) has also built successful sleep apnea and fall detection algorithms using respiratory rate and accelerometry [48-51].”
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- Not checked yetcites [48] Selvaraj N, Narasimhan R. Detection of sleep apnea on a per-second basis using respiratory signals. Presented at: Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2013 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE. Osaka, Japan, (3-7 July 2013). 24110140
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- Not checked yetcites [51] Chan AM, Selvaraj N, Ferdosi N, Narasimhan R. Wireless patch sensor for remote monitoring of heart rate, respiration, activity, and falls. Presented at: Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2013 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE. Osaka, Japan, (3-7 July 2013). 24111135
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“Data from these sensors have been used in a wide range of tasks, including, for example, tracking gait, detecting atrial fibrillation and monitoring blood glucose, respectively.”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Typical wearable devices with applications in health
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“Wearable pressure sensors have also become increasingly common to track forces either exerted on or by the body.”
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“This team has demonstrated early success in detecting Type II diabetes (85% accuracy), atrial fibrillation (97% accuracy), sleep apnea (90% accuracy), hypertension (82% accuracy) and more recently, cardiovascular risk using the DeepHeart platform [42,48].”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Wearable devices used for general health management
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- Not checked yetcites [42] Lim WK, Davila S, Teo JX Beyond fitness tracking: The use of consumer-grade wearable data from normal volunteers in cardiovascular and lipidomics research. PLoS Biol. 16(2), e2004285 (2018). 29485983 PMC5828350
- Not checked yetcites [48] Selvaraj N, Narasimhan R. Detection of sleep apnea on a per-second basis using respiratory signals. Presented at: Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2013 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE. Osaka, Japan, (3-7 July 2013). 24110140
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“At this time, most integration/interoperability apps aggregate data from hundreds of different wearables with their partnered electronic health record systems.”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Wearable biosensors revolutionizing in-clinic/hospital care
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“Technological limitations include noisy heart rate during periods of high intensity activity.”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Wearable biosensors revolutionizing specific fields of healthcare outside of the hospital & clinic > Sleep, neurology, mental health & movement disorders
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“An early-stage ingestible sensor is being explored to diagnose gastrointestinal slowdown or monitor food intake via gastrointestinal movement [83].”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Wearable biosensors revolutionizing specific fields of healthcare outside of the hospital & clinic > Metabolic, cardiovascular & gastrointestinal health
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- Not checked yetcites [83] Dagdeviren C, Javid F, Joe P Flexible piezoelectric devices for gastrointestinal motility sensing. Nat. Biomed. Eng 1(10), 807 (2017). 31015594
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“The Empatica Embrace (MA, USA), a smartwatch that evolved out of the MIT Media Lab, can detect seizures using electrodermal activity and accelerometry and can also notify emergency contacts [20,21,103].”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Wearable biosensors revolutionizing specific fields of healthcare outside of the hospital & clinic > Sleep, neurology, mental health & movement disorders
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- Not checked yetcites [20] Poh MZ, Loddenkemper T, Reinsberger C Convulsive seizure detection using a wrist-worn electrodermal activity and accelerometry biosensor. Epilepsia 53(5), e93– e97 (2012). 22432935 source
- Not checked yetcites [21] Dolgin E. Dressed to detect. Nature 511(Suppl. 7508), S16– S17 (2014). 25019131
- Not checked yetcites [103] Poh M-Z, Loddenkemper T, Reinsberger C Autonomic changes with seizures correlate with postictal EEG suppression. Neurology 78(23), 1868– 1876 (2012). 22539579 PMC3369522
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“Still a challenge is the dependence on active patient participation and the semi-quantitative nature of the measurements.”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Wearable biosensors revolutionizing specific fields of healthcare outside of the hospital & clinic > Sleep, neurology, mental health & movement disorders
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“Wearable technologies to detect, diagnose and manage gastrointestinal conditions are limited.”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Wearable biosensors revolutionizing specific fields of healthcare outside of the hospital & clinic > Metabolic, cardiovascular & gastrointestinal health
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“One example is Sentio Solutions’ Feel wristband (San Francisco, CA, USA), which is anticipated to deliver personalized interventions to the wearer according to their mood state based on their proprietary neural network model that can accurately detect 70–75% of relaxed, anxious, excited and fun mood states using features of heart rate variability and skin conductance (n = 224) [37].”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Wearable biosensors revolutionizing specific fields of healthcare outside of the hospital & clinic > Sleep, neurology, mental health & movement disorders
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- Not checked yetcites [37] Martinez HP, Bengio Y, Yannakakis GN. Learning deep physiological models of affect. IEEE Comput. Intel. Mag 8(2), 20– 33 (2013).
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“In a recent study, 33 and 43% of the alerts successfully engaged the participant in the self-regulation exercise and resulted in de-escalation of a potential episode, respectively [99].”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Wearable biosensors revolutionizing specific fields of healthcare outside of the hospital & clinic > Sleep, neurology, mental health & movement disorders
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- Not checked yetcites [99] Torrado JC, Gomez J, Montoro G. Emotional self-regulation of individuals with autism spectrum disorders: smartwatches for monitoring and interaction. Sensors (Basel) 17(6), 1359 (2017). 28604607 PMC5492838
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“IMUs affixed to shoes were recently found to result in comparable diagnoses with gold standard video-based assessments to distinguish gait differences between PD and unaffected patients and for longitudinal tracking of gait changes in PD (n = 291) [78].”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Wearable biosensors revolutionizing specific fields of healthcare outside of the hospital & clinic > Sleep, neurology, mental health & movement disorders
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- Not checked yetcites [78] Watanabe S, Hojo M, Nagahara A. Metabolic syndrome and gastrointestinal diseases. J. Gastroenterol 42(4), 267– 274 (2007). 17464454
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“Wearable sensors are already impacting healthcare and medicine by enabling health monitoring outside of the clinic and prediction of health events.”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Abstract
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“Accelerometers are most common in wearables, but gyroscopes are appropriate when it is necessary to differentiate acceleration due to gravity versus acceleration due to movement [39].”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Typical wearable devices with applications in health
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [39] Casson AJ, Galvez AV, Jarchi D. Gyroscope vs. accelerometer measurements of motion from wrist PPG during physical exercise. ICT Express 2(4), 175– 179 (2016). source
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“Bioimpedance sensors are thought to be useful for detecting stress and emotion through changes in electrical resistance of tissues related to neural activity.”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Typical wearable devices with applications in health
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“Wearables also facilitate algorithm development for automated health event prediction, prevention and intervention.”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Abstract
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“One of the major challenges in the wide adoption of wearable biosensor technologies for healthcare is the extraction of useful and actionable health-related information from the large volume of data.”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Wearable devices used for general health management
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“New wearables-based analytic platforms are coming online at an unprecedented rate and are transforming quality and accessibility of healthcare everywhere from hospital intensive care units (ICUs) to in-home chronic disease management to resource-limited field settings.”
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“Wearable devices provide opportunities to improve healthcare in a variety of settings, from in-hospital and in-clinic care, to ambulatory care in the home and in remote geographical settings including rural areas and low-resource environments (Figure 2A).”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Wearable devices used for general health management
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“These sensors can generally be classified into three main categories: mechanical, physiological and biochemical (Figure 1B) [1].”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Typical wearable devices with applications in health
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [1] Tamsin M. Wearable biosensor technologies. Int. J. Innov. Sci. Res 13, 697– 703 (2015).
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“Previously geared toward consumer health enthusiasts, healthcare practitioners are now beginning to adopt wearables for patient monitoring.”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Abstract
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“Diagnosis and monitoring of hypertension and treatment efficacy is difficult for a few reasons: a single blood pressure (BP) measurement in the clinic often does not capture true average BP, BP fluctuates throughout the day based on circadian rhythms and daily activity, and the ‘white coat syndrome’ can lead to higher BP measurements in the clinic [68-73].”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Wearable biosensors revolutionizing specific fields of healthcare outside of the hospital & clinic > Metabolic, cardiovascular & gastrointestinal health
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- Not checked yetcites [68] Wexler R. Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in primary care. South Med. J 103(5), 447– 452 (2010). 20375938
- Not checked yetcites [69] Hermida RC, Ayala DE, Mojon A, Fernandez JR. Decreasing sleep-time blood pressure determined by ambulatory monitoring reduces cardiovascular risk. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol 58(11), 1165– 1173 (2011). 21884956
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- Not checked yetcites [71] Asayama K, Thijs L, Brguljan-Hitij J Risk stratification by self-measured home blood pressure across categories of conventional blood pressure: a participant-level meta-analysis. PLoS Med 11(1), e1001591 (2014). 24465187 PMC3897370 source
- Not checked yetcites [72] Pickering TG. The clinical significance of diurnal blood pressure variations. Dippers and nondippers. Circulation 81(2), 700– 702 (1990). 2137050
- Not checked yetcites [73] Mahabala C, Kamath P, Bhaskaran U, Pai ND, Pai AU. Antihypertensive therapy: nocturnal dippers and nondippers. Do we treat them differently? Vasc. Health Risk Manag. 9, 125– 133 (2013). 23569382 PMC3616131
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“Polysomnography, the current gold standard for sleep monitoring, often conflicts with subjective self-reports of sleep and is difficult to monitor longitudinally [84].”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Wearable biosensors revolutionizing specific fields of healthcare outside of the hospital & clinic > Sleep, neurology, mental health & movement disorders
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [84] Kaplan KA, Hirshman J, Hernandez B When a gold standard isn’t so golden: lack of prediction of subjective sleep quality from sleep polysomnography. Biol. Psychol 123, 37– 46 (2017). 27889439 PMC5292065
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“With the ability to more accurately track acute and chronic neurologic and mental health symptoms, the opportunity for real-time intervention follows.”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Wearable biosensors revolutionizing specific fields of healthcare outside of the hospital & clinic > Sleep, neurology, mental health & movement disorders
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“The devices described above provide new sensing and potential therapeutic modalities and are expected to dramatically improve gastrointestinal care.”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Wearable biosensors revolutionizing specific fields of healthcare outside of the hospital & clinic > Metabolic, cardiovascular & gastrointestinal health
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“If FDA approved, these devices will pioneer the field of continuous BP monitoring.”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Wearable biosensors revolutionizing specific fields of healthcare outside of the hospital & clinic > Metabolic, cardiovascular & gastrointestinal health
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“Continuous, passive wearables monitoring can lower dependence on participant interaction and increase the volume of data that can be collected over time.”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Wearable biosensors revolutionizing specific fields of healthcare outside of the hospital & clinic > Sleep, neurology, mental health & movement disorders
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“Sleep impacts chronic illness, neurological conditions and acute cognitive function including memory and mood [22,88-90].”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Wearable biosensors revolutionizing specific fields of healthcare outside of the hospital & clinic > Sleep, neurology, mental health & movement disorders
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- Not checked yetcites [22] Kroll RR, Mckenzie ED, Boyd JG Use of wearable devices for post-discharge monitoring of ICU patients: a feasibility study. J. Intensive Care 5, 64 (2017). 29201377 PMC5698959
- Not checked yetcites [88] Horvath K, Aschermann Z, Acs P Is the MDS-UPDRS a good screening tool for detecting sleep problems and daytime sleepiness in Parkinson’s disease? Parkinsons Dis. 2014, 806169 (2014). 25506041 PMC4251816
- Not checked yetcites [89] Walker MP. The role of sleep in cognition and emotion. Ann. NY Acad. Sci 1156, 168– 197 (2009). 19338508
- Not checked yetcites [90] Bianchi MT. Sleep devices: wearables and nearables, informational and interventional, consumer and clinical. Metabolism 84 99– 108 (2017). 29080814
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“Gait analysis is also used to assess Parkinson’s Disease (PD) patients and generally requires video-based motion-capture in a specialized laboratory [34].”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Wearable biosensors revolutionizing specific fields of healthcare outside of the hospital & clinic > Sleep, neurology, mental health & movement disorders
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [34] Schlachetzki JC, Barth J, Marxreiter F Wearable sensors objectively measure gait parameters in Parkinson’s disease. PLoS ONE 12(10), e0183989 (2017). 29020012 PMC5636070
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“Their labor risk score was developed based on in-hospital data from 55 pregnant women and was evaluated on recordings from 142 pregnant women in free-living conditions.”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Wearable biosensors revolutionizing specific fields of healthcare outside of the hospital & clinic > Maternal, pre- & neo-natal care
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [18] Altini M, Rossetti E, Rooijakkers M Combining electrohysterography and heart rate data to detect labour. Presented at: Biomedical & Health Informatics (BHI), 2017 IEEE EMBS International Conference Orlando-, FL, USA (16-19 February 2017).
- Not checked yetcites [120] Altini M, Rossetti E, Rooijakkers M 762: remote labour detection using maternal electrohysterography and heart rate data acquired with a wearable sensor. Am. J. Obstet. Gynecol 216(1), S441– S442 (2017).
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“Commercially available motion sensing, physiological and biochemical wearable sensors have been adopted for use in both consumer and clinical healthcare.”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Regulatory oversight & economic impact
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“Wearable and environmental sensors promise to improve information collection and transfer rapidly, potentially to off-site experts and specially designed algorithms enable automated and real-time medical decision support in time- and resource-constrained environments (Figure 2B).”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Conclusion
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“This study established the device’s utility for detection and a modest potential to predict near-future disease progression.”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Wearable biosensors revolutionizing specific fields of healthcare outside of the hospital & clinic > Pulmonary health & environmental exposures
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“Further, these tools can be used in specific settings to target extreme healthcare costs, for example, by reducing emergency room visits and hospital readmission rates, improving postsurgical and rehabilitation outcomes, assisting with aging in-home, and preventing serious, preventable and costly medical events (deemed ‘never events’ by CMS) (Figure 2A) [137].”
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- Not checked yetcites [137] Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Eliminating serious, preventable, and costly medical errors – never events (2013). www.cms.gov/Newsroom/MediaReleaseDatabase/Fact-sheets/2006-Fact-sheets-items/2006-2005-2018.html
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“The acceptability of these devices and potential stigma associated with them varies by community and may also be a factor in dividing who benefits from these technologies [141].”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Challenges & future directions
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [141] Farrington C. Wearable technologies and stigma in diabetes: the role of medical aesthetics. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 4(7), 566 (2016). 26923941
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“Several neurologic disorders include motor control dysregulation.”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Wearable biosensors revolutionizing specific fields of healthcare outside of the hospital & clinic > Sleep, neurology, mental health & movement disorders
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“Currently, there is a wide effort to integrate information from these devices into electronic health records.”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Regulatory oversight & economic impact
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“Wearable sensors have an extremely broad variety of applications to specific areas of medicine, enabling monitoring of acute and chronic conditions and overall health both in and outside of the clinical setting.”
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“Although consumer-grade research devices have been primarily adopted for fitness, medical professionals are beginning to find utility in information collected by these devices.”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Regulatory oversight & economic impact
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“Based on collective results of 16 studies, wheeze and crackle event classification had accuracies between 75.78–100% and 89–98.15%, respectively [124].”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Wearable biosensors revolutionizing specific fields of healthcare outside of the hospital & clinic > Pulmonary health & environmental exposures
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [124] Pramono RXA, Bowyer S, Rodriguez-Villegas E. Automatic adventitious respiratory sound analysis: a systematic review. PLoS ONE 12(5), e0177926 (2017). 28552969 PMC5446130
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“Further, many devices are not compatible across platforms (e.g., iOS and Android smart phone operating systems) and there is a lack of data standards which limits their broad use and ubiquity.”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Challenges & future directions
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“Wheezing, characterized by narrowing airway and limited airflow, is linked to both asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease while fine crackling, caused by ‘explosive opening of small airways,’ is linked with pneumonia, congestive heart failure and lung fibrosis [124].”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Wearable biosensors revolutionizing specific fields of healthcare outside of the hospital & clinic > Pulmonary health & environmental exposures
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [124] Pramono RXA, Bowyer S, Rodriguez-Villegas E. Automatic adventitious respiratory sound analysis: a systematic review. PLoS ONE 12(5), e0177926 (2017). 28552969 PMC5446130
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“The time needed to choose and properly set up a device, and remembering to charge the device are also potential barriers to proper use.”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Challenges & future directions
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“False negatives can cause a potentially fatal condition to be missed while false positives can lead to overtreatment and/or anxiety.”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Challenges & future directions
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“It is common to find unsubstantiated scientific claims with no reference to peer-reviewed studies on commercial wearable device company websites and advertising materials that can set a dangerous precedent if inaccurate or misinterpreted data is factored into medical decision making.”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Challenges & future directions
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“Wearables can inform ongoing or new symptoms, such as medication side effects or interactions, and may be able to provide automated just-in-time interventions.”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Conclusion
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“High device cost is a concern that may hinder the accessibility of this consumer healthcare technology to benefit only those who can afford the devices.”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Challenges & future directions
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“The tripartite regulation of wearable devices by the federal government through the FDA, Federal Communications Commission and CMS creates challenges for device manufacturers and vendors whereby regulations can be difficult to adhere to due to the different, and sometimes divergent, objectives of these agencies.”
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“Pantelopoulos and Bourbakis created a scoring system from the perspective of the patient/wearer, the manufacturer and supervising physician for wearables found that many systems score low on wearability, because sensor, battery and on-body hardware size tends to be too bulky in weight and size [165].”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Challenges & future directions
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [165] Pantelopoulos A, Bourbakis N. A survey on wearable biosensor systems for health monitoring. Conf. Proc. IEEE Eng. Med. Biol. Soc. 2008, 4887– 4890 (2008). 19163812
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“Wristbands to detect environmental exposures have been successful but require off-site analysis using gas chromatography on returned wristbands [154].”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Challenges & future directions
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [154] Donald CE, Scott RP, Blaustein KL Silicone wristbands detect individuals’ pesticide exposures in West Africa. R. Soc. Open Sci 3(8), 160433 (2016). 27853621 PMC5108971
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“Although immense progress has been made over the past several decades in wearable sensing technologies and even more recently toward their applications in healthcare, significant limitations must be addressed for wearable biosensing to achieve its full potential of seamless integration into healthcare.”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Challenges & future directions
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“The wristband device also measures skin temperature for calibration, and that data is also useful in analyzing health as described earlier [126,156].”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Challenges & future directions
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [126] Asimina S, Chapizanis D, Karakitsios S Assessing and enhancing the utility of low-cost activity and location sensors for exposure studies. Environ. Monit. Assess 190(3), 155 (2018). 29464404
- Not checked yetcites [156] Gao W, Emaminejad S, Nyein HYY Fully integrated wearable sensor arrays for multiplexed in situ perspiration analysis. Nature 529(7587), 509– 514 (2016). 26819044 PMC4996079 source
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“There are often conflicting technological constraints in device design.”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Challenges & future directions
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“This device was recently tested for cystic fibrosis diagnosis and preliminary investigation of the blood/sweat glucose correlation [161].”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Challenges & future directions
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [161] Emaminejad S, Gao W, Wu E Autonomous sweat extraction and analysis applied to cystic fibrosis and glucose monitoring using a fully integrated wearable platform. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 114(18), 4625– 4630 (2017). 28416667 PMC5422810 •• A seminal demonstration of how fully integrated wearable platforms with multimodal measurement capabilities can dramatically improve monitoring and intervention capabilities. source
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“Unsubstantiated claims that overstate the testing accuracy and indications for the device are commonly made by wearable device companies to improve sales, and further regulations are needed to ensure their appropriate use and to evaluate the potential harm that may result from medical interventions or overdiagnosis based on the use of these devices.”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Challenges & future directions
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“FDA-regulated devices like CGMs have substantially more clinical trials establishing the safety and efficacy of these devices in healthcare (only the most recent/impactful studies are referenced for brevity), but consumer-grade FDA devices have limited evidence of their utility in healthcare.”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Challenges & future directions
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“BreathLink is another breath analysis technology to identify women with breast cancer and pulmonary tuberculosis, but this technology is not yet in a wearable form factor [152,153].”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Challenges & future directions
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [152] Phillips M, Beatty JD, Cataneo RN Rapid point-of-care breath test for biomarkers of breast cancer and abnormal mammograms. PLoS ONE 9(3), e90226 (2014). 24599224 PMC3943910
- Not checked yetcites [153] Phillips M, Basa-Dalay V, Blais J Point-of-care breath test for biomarkers of active pulmonary tuberculosis. Tuberculosis (Edinb.) 92(4), 314– 320 (2012). 22647661
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“This type of device has been explored most recently through closed-loop insulin delivery systems for Type 1 diabetics, and broader applications are forthcoming [162].”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Challenges & future directions
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [162] Stone JY, Haviland N, Bailey TS. Review of a commercially available hybrid closed-loop insulin-delivery system in the treatment of Type 1 diabetes. Ther. Deliv 9(2), 77– 87 (2018). 29235423
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“Challenges to addressing this include the wide range of device and system architectures and the proprietary nature of many analytic platforms which limit their generalizability.”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Challenges & future directions
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“Wearable oxygen diffusion sensors have been used to track wound healing, and moisture sensors can inform better timing of wound dressing changes [148,149].”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Challenges & future directions
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [148] Niederauer MQ, Michalek JE, Armstrong DG. A prospective, randomized, double-blind multicenter study comparing continuous diffusion of oxygen therapy to sham therapy in the treatment of diabetic foot ulcers. J. Diabetes Sci. Technol 11(5), 883– 891 (2017). 28654304 PMC5950983
- Not checked yetcites [149] Milne SD, Seoudi I, Al Hamad H A wearable wound moisture sensor as an indicator for wound dressing change: an observational study of wound moisture and status. Int. Wound J 13(6), 1309– 1314 (2016). 26561281 PMC7950073
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Most airway abnormalities can be characterized by abnormal sounds (adventitious sounds).
“Pulmonary disease wearables take advantage of the fact that most airway abnormalities can be characterized by the abnormal sounds (adventitious sounds).”
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“We have provided a wide overview of wearable devices; however, the included studies did not show the full range of possible wearables and measured vital signs [9,37].”
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“In recent years, the quality and accuracy of wearables have improved [7,8], resulting in more clinically approved certifications [9].”
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“The literature underlines the potential for wearable-based research in low-resource settings to generate data and improve health care [9], based on their low cost and ease of use (data acquisition, hardware, and software handling) [233].”
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“However, most studies were conducted in high-income settings, like the US and Europe [19, 25, 35].”
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§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Conclusion
“are four large-scale initiatives to collect longitudinal wearable device data”
§ Wearables and the medical revolution > Conclusion
“The Precision Medicine Initiative, the Google Baseline Project, MyHeartCounts, the Stanford Azumio Activity Inequality study and the Health ePeople study”
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- Authors
- Dunn, J., Runge, R., & Snyder, M.
- Affiliations
- Stanford University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Snyder, Michael
- Venue
- Personalized Medicine
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2018-09
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 429-448
- ISSN
- 1741-0541 (ISSN-L)
- 1744-828X
- PMC
- PMC12294383
- OpenAlex
- W2893814198
- Semantic Scholar
- 10a52258659a025213707790354a6cc13482bade
- Cited by
- 654
- References
- 154
- Citations by year
- 2026: 99 · 2025: 88 · 2024: 101 · 2023: 94 · 2022: 94 · 2021: 95 · 2020: 56 · 2019: 22 · 2018: 5
- FWCI
- 3.64
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Personalized Medicine (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Mobilize Center (U54 EB020405)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Wireless Body Area Networks
- Keywords
- wearable sensors, remote patient monitoring, clinical translation, metabolic monitoring, cardiovascular monitoring, gastrointestinal monitoring, sleep monitoring, neurology, movement disorders, mental health, maternal and newborn care, respiratory health, environmental exposure monitoring
- MeSH terms
- Wearable Electronic Devices, Delivery of Health Care, Humans, Monitoring, Physiologic, Telemetry, Monitoring, Ambulatory, Wireless Technology
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
A language model drew the claims from the paper on 2026-10-09, under version 3 of the claim definition (model deepseek-v4.1-flash, prompt extract-v3).
A second model labelled each claim on 2026-10-09 (model jev-1.13-20260917, definition revision gold-guideline-v0.2).
Cited sources are checked with a language model’s help (gpt-6-sol).
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
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