Wearable Devices
topic on 1 show · 6 statements across 5 episodes
6 statements about Wearable Devices, every show
Wolf: Health insurance will eventually cover consumer wearable health devices
“Today most of these products are consumer purchased, and I think there's totally a world where insurance starts to cover a lot of wearable devices and things today that we think of as consumer products, and we definitely see that.”
Wolf: Future wearables will predict illnesses before patients feel any symptoms
“These wearable devices are gonna predict that you're getting sick before you even start feeling symptoms and know.”
Snyder: Wearable monitoring study caught heart issues and early cancer in 100-person cohort
“And as a study we've been running on a hundred people, we've actually Caught at least two cases of heart issues early because we were following them closely. In one case, right from simple wearable device. We also caught a pre-cancer and a case of early lympho…”
Rachel Kalmar: Wearable algorithms are useless if users reject the hardware
“If you can't get somebody to wear the device that you built, none of the sophisticated algorithms that you have matter at all.”
Huffington: Sleep trackers build awareness but aren't permanently necessary
“Sleep monitoring, like step monitoring or any exercise monitoring can be helpful in terms of helping us see where we are in terms of our sleep compared to our energy level the next day. It makes us more self-aware. But frankly, at some point, we can become sel…”